DigiTech Whammy Pedal not working, at all

[NinjaSnowman]

I have a Digitech Whammy pedal, 4 or something, I think. It's pretty old, but it doesn't work, at all, as said in the title. I've plugged it in, but I don't know if it's with the original cable. The side of the pedal says 9 volts AC at 1.3 amps, which is the output on the cable I'm using, so it should work. But I've plugged it in, done that calibrate trick, even took it apart and poked around inside it. But nothing. the lights won't even come on. If it means anything, the AC input seems to smell kind of burnt out, if that makes sense, but I don't know if that means anything. So do i just need a better wire, or is the jack broken, or is it something different entirely, if any of you have any idea. So yeah, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in Advance.

Also, Chances are I destroyed any kind of warranty that was on it by taking it apart, so I probably cant send it to digitech or anything like that, but idk.

[brothersnowgone]

That burnt smell is probably one of the flat wires on the circuit board or boards. I've had a pedal die on me with a funny smell. Opened it up and there was a brown dot where the smell was coming from. It was a wire on the circuit board that burned up. So I found where that wire on the board was coming from and leading to and just substituted a short piece of copper wire to fix the short. It worked for a few months and then stopped working again. Never figured out the second failure.

[NinjaSnowman]

So if I open it up, find something like a brown dot, then solder some wire over either side of it, it should work for a while?

[brothersnowgone]

Should be a temporary fix. Make sure you don't cross anything inside or you could mess it up more. I really only did it at the time because I was bored and wanted something to fix, it wasn't a pedal I used all the time so I wasn't concerned with whether or not I could get it working. I did it just for the learning experience. I didn't even expect to find the problem when I opened it, but it just happened to be staring me in the face.

If when you're all done and it didn't go well, meaning it was too small an area to solder and it just got kind of messy, scrap the pedal. You don't want some pedal thats been rigged wrong to take out your amp or anything like that. Though I don't know if thats even possible, just be safe.