NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :'(

Hopefully not too much damage done here!!

Dude... been going through exactly the same thing with two pedals I got from the states - the first one I plugged in and it turned on - great, so I left it and went back later - and nothing. To cut a long story short - no smoke and I, luckily, just blew the plug. But I've learned my lesson and after a lot of help from the guys have ordered a new plug for the other pedal that I bought - check that out here: http://www.guitarforum.co.za/effects/power-problems/

I feel for you...

Moist wrote: there was smoke near where the power chord goes in.

The mains into the supply or the power into the M13?

If it's the former, replace the PSU with a 220V version and check to see if the unit works. Chances are very good it's toast anyway.

If the latter or if it doesn't work with the correct supply, you might have fried the power input (no fuses inside because it's low voltage) on the M13 or any number of other bits. What can be done depends on construction, but chances are it's a single PCB and almost certainly all smd, in which case it's off to the local distributors to replace the whole board (which might cost as much as replacing the whole unit). You'll only know for sure when you get it in for repairs.

Just a note to everyone - Moist feels bad enough (and might be paying heavily) for his mistake. Please resist the urge to rub it in.

Aish moist, that sucks sooo much! I'm a little suprised that it's not 110-240 volts, I thought most units were stocked with those kinds of transformers! So sorry, if you were in Durban, I'd tell you to take it to my dad, he's a technician and could sort it out I'm sure. Let us know what happens!

Took it to music mate in pretoria. They checked it, and turned out that I only blew the power supply(PHEW!!). So now I have a working pedal \?/

Thank goodness. I guess I was pretty lucky.

P.S. The pedal is AWESOME.

Good news Moist! Enjoy it man.

For other people importing pedals/amps or any electrical items, please TAKE NOTE - always check the power requirements, if in doubt, ask FIRST!

* hope i don't go and do it myself now... :-[ ? can you imagine THAT post ?

good news Moist !! see, you were way to harsh on yourself calling yourself a retard!! ? ? ?

but good lesson learnt...

like for all those people that want to buy a Made in America strats and then get home to find they dont work on their amplifier pushing 230volts cause Amercian strats ae only designed to work on 110volt amplifiers.. ? ? ?

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Just a note to everyone - Moist feels bad enough (and might be paying heavily) for his mistake. Please resist the urge to rub it in.

Alan what a COOL Emoticon. Nice to see you being all exective and stuff on the forums :?

Moist - Thats lucky man. Im glad your pedal came out alive. I also have 4 pedals from the states, and only 1 transformer, so sadly, its one pedal at a time for me. Ha ha

Btw - And this is not a stab at anyone. But how can the shops sell USA to RSA converters without a transformer? The logic seems stupid to me. A UK to SA converter makes sense cause we share the same power vibes.

FruitarGeek wrote: Alan what a COOL Emoticon.

I stole it from somewhere else.

Btw - And this is not a stab at anyone. But how can the shops sell USA to RSA converters without a transformer? The logic seems stupid to me. A UK to SA converter makes sense cause we share the same power vibes.

More and more stuff is coming out with switching supplies that work on either voltage. TC Electronic is a good example.

Btw - And this is not a stab at anyone. But how can the shops sell USA to RSA converters without a transformer? The logic seems stupid to me. A UK to SA converter makes sense cause we share the same power vibes.

More and more stuff is coming out with switching supplies that work on either voltage. TC Electronic is a good example.
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Also my amp isn't 110V but it comes with a US plug.