plipto Posted May 10, 2024 Share Posted May 10, 2024 Woke up to my Variax smoldering at 4am with a pungent burning smell. Need advice on how to fix (if fixable?). Ive read that others have had pieces of string fall off inside the bridge/pizzo pickups assembly (during string change) and embedding somewhere on the pcb and shorting it out. I assume that’s what happened to mine. Any advice on 3rd party pcb replacements (or whatever is burnt)? Apparently line6 doesn’t have these parts anymore and really don’t like dealing with their legacy products. Was hoping the burning smell was a stroke, that would possibly have been fixable. A suppose a regular 9v power system would’ve been too easy? Let’s make a wacky proprietary TRS/ethernet/battery way to get power to our firestarter? Varifukd Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted May 17, 2024 Share Posted May 17, 2024 On 5/10/2024 at 10:54 AM, plipto said: Woke up to my Variax smoldering at 4am with a pungent burning smell. Need advice on how to fix (if fixable?). Ive read that others have had pieces of string fall off inside the bridge/pizzo pickups assembly (during string change) and embedding somewhere on the pcb and shorting it out. I assume that’s what happened to mine. Any advice on 3rd party pcb replacements (or whatever is burnt)? Apparently line6 doesn’t have these parts anymore and really don’t like dealing with their legacy products. Was hoping the burning smell was a stroke, that would possibly have been fixable. A suppose a regular 9v power system would’ve been too easy? Let’s make a wacky proprietary TRS/ethernet/battery way to get power to our firestarter? Varifukd Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. 168 B · 2 downloads I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain that aside from the Graphtech piezo saddles that some have opted for, there have never been any other 3rd party replacement guts for the Variax...and certainly not the main board where all the fancy proprietary stuff lives. Organ harvesting from the used market is always an option, but unless you can steal one at a great price, it's probably not worth it. At this point, a catastrophic failures like this leaves you with a boat anchor... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plipto Posted September 20, 2024 Author Share Posted September 20, 2024 Unfortunately, you’re probably correct. I’m hoping to maybe find a schematic to replace or clean up the burnt part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psarkissian Posted September 23, 2024 Share Posted September 23, 2024 No schematics available. Too much proprietary stuff in it. The way the strings are on a 500 Electric, the ends won't fall onto the circuit. That can happen with a JTV-69 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psarkissian Posted September 25, 2024 Share Posted September 25, 2024 Saw the photos from the the support ticket from back in May, as the Support people consulted me about that. Trying to repair trace damage like won't last. And two IC's near that spot may be damaged as well, one of which, sorry to say, is an out of date IC no longer made or available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plipto Posted October 22, 2024 Author Share Posted October 22, 2024 Thanks, I appreciate the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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