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crystAlex

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Hi guys,
I got this pretty old stingray which I bought about 10 years ago, 2nd hand.
It's in great shape, but whenever I haven't played in a long time (I play guitar mostly, and only get this misses out for tracking new songs), the bass will not give any signal for about 30 min or so. I need to put in a new battery, plug in the cable... Wait... then some loud crackles and pops, and then suddenly: signal coming through, no problem whatsoever.
Same story if I repeat the story in the subsequent days, only it takes a few minutes then.
To me, that sounds like a capacitor problem, but I wanted to check if anyone had any experience with this so far...
Thanks in advance for the help!

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Hi guys,
I got this pretty old stingray which I bought about 10 years ago, 2nd hand.
It's in great shape, but whenever I haven't played in a long time (I play guitar mostly, and only get this misses out for tracking new songs), the bass will not give any signal for about 30 min or so. I need to put in a new battery, plug in the cable... Wait... then some loud crackles and pops, and then suddenly: signal coming through, no problem whatsoever.
Same story if I repeat the story in the subsequent days, only it takes a few minutes then.
To me, that sounds like a capacitor problem, but I wanted to check if anyone had any experience with this so far...
Thanks in advance for the help!

These come to mind:

*Battery box...intermittent connection with the battery. terminals.

*Output jack or surrounding loose wiriing.
 
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