Hughes and Kettner Sucks !

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You would not believe the issues I keep encountering with this damn footswitch! I went to a friend that is experienced electronics troubleshooter , thought we fixed it and it turns out it won't change the channels after a full reconnection of everything (actually a different switch I bought for $25 to modify) Built on a little piece of plastic board with momentary non latching switches it didn't do much until I held both switches down and everything on the amp lit up. I reversed the 3 prong connector and by touching the plastic switches inside could change the channels and add boost to gain channel. When closed up it didn't work because it has springs around the pin that is inside the metal switch part you step on. I removed the springs and couldn't get it to work right , I tried some bigger screws then I put a couple rubber pedal feet underneath the switches to make them stay in place.After a bunch of tries with different things inside it I went back to the original pins and just put a piece of electrical tape over both of them and it seems to be working even though the channel from clean to gain sticks and the channel switch LED stays lit sometimes. I still have 2 other switches (HK FS-2 and a 2 button Marshall style with LEDs) the HK has a bad cable so I spent my last $20 in the world to get another TRS cable to replace that one. At the $60 or so I spent on the switch when I bought one of their amps(why it is not included? They are cheap money grubbing assholes) $25 for a second switch to modify $20 I spent on a switch from China so I could run both amps at the same time $17.95 for the TRS cable and whatever somewhere around 50 hours of my time is worth trying to repair it (plus the $25 an hour for 3 hours that the expert would normally charge) might be the most expensive footswitch project in recorded history? Blah,blah and blah.Stay safe and have fun kids , at some point this will be resolved if it kills me !