Tangle wood acoustic draining batteries

[mojobass]

Anyone else on here with a tangle wood electric acoustic?? I have one which is draining batteries even when unplugged! I’m guessing a grounding issue but no idea how/where to start

[John Cribbin]

I'd pull the jack socket and check for faults there first. The sockets have a reputation for failure depending on type.

 

Once upon a time I bought an active Ibanez which ate batteries. Turns out the original socket must have failed, so some numpty replaced a stereo socket with a mono one. Thing was wired to be permanently on ....