Broke my Stingray 4string!

[WILEEE]

Hey guys,

While changing the battery in my bass, I somehow got it put in backwards. After trying to close the compartment door and having trouble getting it to click shut, I opened it back up and founf the problem. Only now I have no output to my amp from my bass. Is there any electrical component I could have shorted out by having the batterey polarity backwards? Or could it be as simple as a broken wire?

I have 3 Fender basses and just bought this killer Musicman 4 string this past week--it quickly became my favorite bass. Now I can only look at it instead of play it!
Any suggestions are welcomed!

Thanks,

Wiley

 

[silverburst]

My guess would be that the terminals were loosened by stuffing it in backwards. Do they look like they are bent back?

 

[WILEEE]

Broke my 4string

I removed the battery compartment from the body of my bass and put everything back into its place. I noticed the red wire had a flat spot mashed into it pretty hard. I may have broken that wire inside the plastic insulation covering. I was curiuos whether the bass would put out a signal without the battery in it, like a passive one would. Perhaps the wire is broken and it has interrupted the circuit back to the output jack.

I'll locate my multi-meter tomorrow and check it out.

Thanks for your reply.

 

[Aussie Mark]

It won't have any output without a battery.

 

[oli@bass]

A 2 band EQ Preamp will have output, one with the 3 band EQ will have no output.

BTW, you have my full compassion: First thing I did to my newly acquired Black Sparkle Ray was to exchange the battery by a new one... and by doing so broke the soldering on the battery compartment. Took it to the distributors CS department and they soldered it on again, leaving a bit more cable length so that I won't break it again.

 

[WILEEE]

Broken Stingray cont.

After my guitar tech friend gave it the once over, the battery wires were fine. A wire had come loose in the assembly, so he re-soldered that and touched up a few more connections while he had everything out on the bench. He said it looked as though someone had made some repairs before. Unfortunately, these repairs didn't fix it. He said it must be a problem with the control chip or something in the circuitboard.

I plan to call EBMM customer service tomorrow and see what they might have to say and get a price on a new board for my bass.

My friend did help me in another way though; he bypassed the EQ altogether to allow me to play my bass using the EQ on my Ampeg SVT1000. I will definately get the EQ back up and operational even if I have to ship my bass to EBMM.

Thanks for you replies.

Wiley

 

[WILEEE]

Broken Stingray on the mend-I hope!

After 2 weeks of exploratory surgery by the local Fender repair tech, I shipped the damaged preamp back to MM for a replacement. The whole assembly including all new pots is only $75.00. The tech returned my bass to me set up to play passive while I await the new preamp. Man, I really missed this bass! I've been playing my Fender Highway One P bass and miss the sweetness of the StingRAy!

 

[syciprider]

Are they really that delicate?

 

[Alz®]

No.........but then again, going to Active from Passive may be a steep learning curve for some hehehehehe!!!