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Offline BigE

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Boss CE-2 Power issue
« on: February 16, 2010, 08:56:15 pm »
Just wanna get your guys's input before I tackle this.  Pretty sure I know what's goin on but wanna make sure as I haven't messed with too many pedals before.

I gotta Boss CE-2 Chorus....  When you run it off battery the LED comes on and all is fine.  When you remove the Battery and run it off a power adapter the effect will work but the LED won't come on.

In messing with it, I found that if you short the ground lug from the DC plug to the chasis the LED comes on.

Thoughts on what's goin on?
http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/s/boss-ce2-chorus-schematic.php

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Re: Boss CE-2 Power issue
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2010, 05:27:09 pm »
Busted wire on the power socket.

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Re: Boss CE-2 Power issue
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2010, 08:24:25 pm »
No dice.  I can short points 3 and 4 together and it works.  And i can short from point 3 across the diode to R53 and it works so I'm gonna try a new diode tomorrow.  The value of R54 on the schematic didn't match the one in the pedal.  So I put a 100 in the pedal so it'd match the Schematic and still no dice.  Seems as if you take the diode out of the equation all works fine.

 


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