Its alive!

After the tip to collar trick failing I was pretty certain my tuner was dodgy. I confirmed this further when the Sony Stalk I picked up on eBay didn't work either. So, I borrowed an original Empeg tuner. Plugged it in, and it all works straight away. Just like that.

So, turns out that the 'stalk' part of my PCATS tuner and my sisters PCATS tuner is faulty somehow.

Btw: does my PCATS tuner really give me better reception than my original tuner, or is it the case that the signal meter on the original one actually works as opposed to the PCATS one being stuck on max?