Have I trashed my Side LED's?

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Author Message jazzyvee Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3349 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 10:43 am:    Just after I bought my first Europa bass in 2005 I decided to get some fretfx LED's and they have been great and only yesterday I changed the batteries for the first time for some new ones. But as it happens I wasn't concentrating when I did it and put them in the wrong way round. the lights came on briefly then stopped and when I put the batteries in the right way round i get no light from them. Have i really trashed them? Jazzyvee 811952 Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 2277 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 11:57 am:    I installed FretFX LEDs on a bass and they recommend storing them with the battery reversed in the clip. Probably mine are a newer design (I got them in January), but I wouldn't think a button cell could possible destroy them. John jazzyvee Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3350 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 2:09 pm:    Mine is the older one with two AAA batteries. JAzzyvee tncaveman Intermediate Member Username: tncaveman Post Number: 162 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 2:45 pm:    unless there is something special w/ a circuit before the actual LED's, it should not hurt anything. A LED is a diode, a simple electronic component that allows current to flow in one direction. Check the batteries. They might be bad. Good Luck Stephen tbrannon Senior Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 1544 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Friday, March 01, 2013 - 6:43 am:    Unless there was some sort of physical damage to the contacts for the batteries while you changed them, I can think of no reason why having them in backwards would cause any damage. I've had the 'tab' or the 'spring' contact point break on a couple things in the past.