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[Guitar]

Sounds like the battery has gone, and probably leaked.

 

Alarm on power up which clears after a few attempts sounds like the battery was flat.

Flat batteries are not happy batteries and tend to leak.

 

If it then starts not powering up at all it could be the power pack, but knowing it was stored out of use for a while (hence the flat battery), probably means the battery has leaked causing damage to the mpu.

 

I have a spare mpu if you need one. DONT power it up before you check the board, if the board looks fine (no leaky battery or green fur everywhere). If you power up a board with bad corrosion it can cause even more issues.

 

It could be other things too, but the signs are there that all is not well battery wise.

 

Check fuses in the power pack too, and the plug.

 

If it is battery damaged post a photo of the affected area, MPU4's are robust and quite fixable if the leak hasn't gone absolutely everywhere.

[yellabelly]

Hi many thanks for the great info 

 

The one I had one before kept alarming and then I found the battery had leaked and by me keep powering it up knackered the reel board as well in the end 

I will check tomorrow and report back

[ady]

Nice bit of teamwork Guy's

[superbank]

Take some decent hi-res photo's of the board around the battery area and we can tell you if any damage has been done. Hopefully you'll be lucky and just have to change the battery.

[Pook]

Take some decent hi-res photo's of the board around the battery area and we can tell you if any damage has been done. Hopefully you'll be lucky and just have to change the battery.

 

Hi-res of the glasses too would be dandy please 

[ady]

Take some decent hi-res photo's of the board around the battery area and we can tell you if any damage has been done. Hopefully you'll be lucky and just have to change the battery.

 

Pukka seeing the info on getting the 'Babe' running.

 

 

Hi-res of the glasses too would be dandy please 

 

Dave if anyone deserves it you do

 

Yellla, Iv'e followed this mate from the start as you see, Pook is your (and OUR!!) man buddy.....send him some Pic's bud

[Guitar]

I will hopefully be popping round to get all the neccessaries to emulate this, I'll make sure I pass resources to Pook.

[ady]

I will hopefully be popping round to get all the neccessaries to emulate this, I'll make sure I pass resources to Pook.

 

WTG mate, Kudo's.

[yellabelly]

Hi Guys 
 
Many thanks again for all of the info you're all stars
Well its bad news im afraid Just been doing some dismantling didn't realise how hard it would be to get main board out to check the battery 
The battery definitely looks like its the culprit and has caused some damage not sure of extent hopefully you guys can see pics to follow if my blooming comp will let me Grr

[Geddy]

Good luck and thanks for the resources!

[Guitar]

Pics from yellabelly as he cant post pics until he has enough posts.

 

It's hard to see the battery damaged area clearly, but there looks to be a fair amount of reflection from the legs of nearby components which is a good sign.

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[vectra666]

Look forward to this being,emued from pook and yourself guitar, thanks to all involved and hope his machine gets running.

[richy1976]

Battery has leaked can see green deposits to the left.

[yellabelly]

Hi all

 

I have had the board cleaned up and a new battery installed however after connecting everything back up all I am getting is a red power light on the main mpu4 board any ideas gratefully received 

Regards