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A few years ago I was moving. I had packed my Fryette Power Station PS-100 into a cardboard box and went to lift it up from the floor. The bottom of the box gave out and the PS-100 fell on the floor on its feet from maybe 10 cm height. I opened the PS-100 to see if any tube was busted, but no visible damage anywhere.
Plugged it in and it no longer worked, no sound from the poweramp with an amp or modeler.
Took it to a local amp tech for repairs. The tech said the tubes were fine, but found a busted relay and swapped that. Alas, there was still no output from the PS-100.
Tried contacting Fryette for schematics, but they were in COVID lockdown (which was not visible anywhere). Then there was all the usual difficulty reaching Fryette via email. When they came back to work, they just forgot to answer my messages, and claimed they never got any messages from my tech. Fryette support is the worst part of the company, I mean how hard is it to keep track of emails or use a ticket system?
I told the tech to stop putting more bench hours figuring it out on their own, I'll claim it on my home insurance. When I got the PS-100 back I tried it again and got nothing out of it. I was happy insurance paid for it at least.
Since then, the dead PS-100 has been sitting in my parents' basement for a few years. I was considering one day getting it repaired, or selling it as faulty. That day was today. I was visiting my parents and was planning to take it back home, and go to a tech in my current city.
Before I did that, I decided to plug it into my Bluetone 4x10 cab. But I didn't have an amp here...so how do I try this out? Then I remembered my Hudson Broadcast clone has a 27V mode that is capable of driving a poweramp! I plugged in my pedals into the PS-100 fx return and started turning up the volume. It was noisy...but there was output!
The PS-100 lives!
Ok, now I needed to figure out how to try it out properly. But I don't have an amp here...but wait a minute, I have my Macbook Pro and a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 2nd gen audio interface! Plugged those in, and loaded some NAM profiles in Logic Pro.
Turned up the volume, and now I was getting awesome tones out of the rig!
It was working no problem! It got loud as hell too if using the fx return instead of the line input. Turns out the noise was a faulty instrument cable and swapping that solved it.
I have no idea why it works without issue now. Even the 130 Hz rumble I was getting back when it worked is gone. But hey, I have a PS-100 again! I tried a bunch of NAM captures and some Helix Native models through this and all sounded really, really good blasted at loud volume through the 4x10.
TL;DR: Broke my Fryette PS-100. Tech couldn't repair it. Fryette was no help. Years later PS-100 rises from the dead and starts working again.
Plugged it in and it no longer worked, no sound from the poweramp with an amp or modeler.
Took it to a local amp tech for repairs. The tech said the tubes were fine, but found a busted relay and swapped that. Alas, there was still no output from the PS-100.
Tried contacting Fryette for schematics, but they were in COVID lockdown (which was not visible anywhere). Then there was all the usual difficulty reaching Fryette via email. When they came back to work, they just forgot to answer my messages, and claimed they never got any messages from my tech. Fryette support is the worst part of the company, I mean how hard is it to keep track of emails or use a ticket system?
I told the tech to stop putting more bench hours figuring it out on their own, I'll claim it on my home insurance. When I got the PS-100 back I tried it again and got nothing out of it. I was happy insurance paid for it at least.
Since then, the dead PS-100 has been sitting in my parents' basement for a few years. I was considering one day getting it repaired, or selling it as faulty. That day was today. I was visiting my parents and was planning to take it back home, and go to a tech in my current city.
Before I did that, I decided to plug it into my Bluetone 4x10 cab. But I didn't have an amp here...so how do I try this out? Then I remembered my Hudson Broadcast clone has a 27V mode that is capable of driving a poweramp! I plugged in my pedals into the PS-100 fx return and started turning up the volume. It was noisy...but there was output!
The PS-100 lives!
Ok, now I needed to figure out how to try it out properly. But I don't have an amp here...but wait a minute, I have my Macbook Pro and a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 2nd gen audio interface! Plugged those in, and loaded some NAM profiles in Logic Pro.
Turned up the volume, and now I was getting awesome tones out of the rig!
It was working no problem! It got loud as hell too if using the fx return instead of the line input. Turns out the noise was a faulty instrument cable and swapping that solved it.I have no idea why it works without issue now. Even the 130 Hz rumble I was getting back when it worked is gone. But hey, I have a PS-100 again! I tried a bunch of NAM captures and some Helix Native models through this and all sounded really, really good blasted at loud volume through the 4x10.
TL;DR: Broke my Fryette PS-100. Tech couldn't repair it. Fryette was no help. Years later PS-100 rises from the dead and starts working again.
