Line 6 issues an urgent safety warning to owners of the Relay G10, G10S or Relay G10T wireless systems

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They reportedly pose a fire hazard after several instances of "extreme overheating" but there is a fix

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Line 6 has issued an urgent safety warning to anyone who purchased its G10, Relay G10S and Relay G10T wireless transmitters prior to March 2020.

Line 6 has advised immediate corrective action via a firmware update for the units after "several instances of extreme overheating and a risk of fire".

Best guitar wireless systems: Line 6 Relay G10S

(Image credit: Line 6)

These follow reports by some users of overheating, reportedly during charging. Line 6 issued a 'Recall-To-Repair' with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission in March 2020 and the step requires users to install a firmware update. 

To download the update and for more info head here. 

So it's potentially a simple fix for users for what remains one of the best guitar wireless systems available for performance and price. The pedalboad-mountable G10S was released in 2019. 

Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Reviews Editor, GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars

Rob is the Reviews Editor for GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars, so spends most of his waking hours (and beyond) thinking about and trying the latest gear while making sure our reviews team is giving you thorough and honest tests of it. He's worked for guitar mags and sites as a writer and editor for nearly 20 years but still winces at the thought of restringing anything with a Floyd Rose.

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