Peavey Millenium Active BXP eats batteries. solution?

[dtjesus]

I have had a peavey millenium AC BXP 4 string active bass for a while. Love the sound. Takes 2 9v batteries and eats them like a whale. Has anybody found any solution to it?
BTW i have looked into it a bit and dont think its the active electronics which suck the batteries but the actual pickups themselves are battery suckers. Is that true?

 

[boytcam]

I have a sc bxp 5 string and havent had any problem at all man,changed the batteries once so far after practice eadh week and playing all weekend for about a year

 

[TheSuzie]

I think I have read about this problem somewhere online. I seem to recall that Peavey had a fix for basses that had this problem. I would certainly call or email Peavey. They have always been very nice when I have contacted them in the past.

Good Luck,
S

 

[Hawaii Islander]

I have a Peavey AC Millenium BXP. I had the same batteries in it for the past several weeks. I don't play it every day (I know: my bad! ). I never leave the instrument cable plugged in when I'm not playing.

I also recall reading that a wire position in some models needed to swapped. I htought it had to do with the instrument jack?