Just bumping this old thread to say that I posted a diagram for bypassing the Powerchip here.

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I'm starting to think the thing to do would be to disable the piezo. Has anyone ever had the guitar just start making a weird sound like this? It reads as though your preamp freaked out from a component failure. It’s common enough that you’re in good company. Thankfully, the Powerchip is still prod...

Welcome, jn668ntb . Going by the chrome piezo saddles in your 824, they're Fishman and utilize the Fishman Powerchip preamp . The good news is that Fishman has never stopped producing the Powerchip; meaning you can order a new one through any Fishman dealer/retailer (or direct from Fishman, if you p...

Hi All, another piezo post. Just picked up P38 and am getting very low output on the E/A strings, and slightly crackly output on the D string. Things I have tried: New A string, problem persists compressed air on and under saddles, problem persists Lightly sanding the saddles where the string hits t...

... positive wire to break or fray loose from its solder pad on the board and short out other board components with enough voltage to burn them out). #PiezoIssues

... the ill effects of a brain fart, your guitar should essentially be wired up like this: https://flyclone.com/download/file.php?id=841&mode=view #PiezoIssues

Hello, I have a 2005 NiteFly SA and I love it. The only thing that I wish I could change is for it to have the Stereo/Mono switch found in the older models. Is this something possible to add and wire in? I browsed the wiring diagrams but honestly they are pretty confusing to my basic knowledge of gu...

Thomerz , You can re-use or run a new ground wire from the underside of the trem to the back of a pot or other common grounding point. The strings ground through this via the ball ends being seated in the bridge. Over the years, I've read anecdotes about some older D'Addarios with painted ball ends...

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Hey Floydwhammy —good news that it’s not the undersaddle piezo elements themselves! That’s a way less-invasive fix as you don’t need to touch your saddles! Sadly, Fishman only made that board for the Fly during the first decade. If the board is the failure point, you’d have to replace it with someth...

Hi Gelphledor ; welcome! I've encountered this issue before and have been able to solve it a few times simply by changing the strings. The piezo element in the saddle needs to be as close to the string as possible to make good contact and if it's not seated properly in the underside of the saddle, i...

Hi @t_whiston; welcome!

That issue can happen sometimes if the piezo element in the saddle isn’t seated properly. You can try spraying it with compressed air and see if the part where the string hits the saddle is loose.

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Hi Presence76 ; nice grab! What exactly is the signal path? Is the stereo cable a single cable with one end? What is the splitter box and what is it expecting at the input; a mono signal? Can you try this with a TRS Y-cord and put each end into the same amp or input? There is a red button on the sid...

Sorry to hear this! Do you see any corrosion on any of the components on the inside? If the magnetic pickups work, then it’s probably not the piezo preamp (since the magnetic pickups run through the piezo preamp on a pre-refined fly). Sometimes, an irregularly-sized quarter-inch jack will cause prob...