Let me ask about the unspoken obvious thing first. When you power up the board, I'm assuming the control pedal is connected? If not, perhaps the absence of the pedal is creating an open in the reference voltage the board uses to regulate power accordingly. I've worked as a service tech on some things before, one of the very first gotchas anyone finds is forgetting to test appropriately when circuits are split between boards or devices.
If that isn't the actual problem, remember that any variable regulator circuit has to have a reference of some kind to keep it in bounds. Check the schematics and docs you may have and hunt down the reference, many times a voltage, that keeps the power in range. You may find your problem that way. Good luck!