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Post by chezvoz on Jun 5, 2012 16:27:58 GMT -6
I seem to have similar results. I've tried both my digital and my analog meters. It seems like I should at least see some needle movement, even though the value range is too low to get an accurate reading from the digital meter (>200 ohms).
I wrote to the seller who said they would send me the info. But that will be days, at best. Who knows what new events will keep me from finishing this thing!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2012 17:53:14 GMT -6
you could try and hook the pickups to a input jack and plug them in to see if they work. Of course that wont tell you what your resistance is. You don't have to put them in the guitar just tapping on them with a screwdriver will make a noise through the amp. Without reading back you did buy a new set of pickup's right? But don't give up. I have found that the guitars that give me fits usually turn out to be grate guitars. EB
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Post by chezvoz on Jun 5, 2012 18:39:05 GMT -6
I got a reading with my analog meter. Must have been something I did. The pairs are black/white and red/green, like a Seymour Duncan.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2012 20:57:32 GMT -6
Cool glad you figured it out.
EB
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Post by dnic on Jun 5, 2012 23:05:18 GMT -6
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Post by chezvoz on Jun 6, 2012 10:12:42 GMT -6
Thanks for the correction. Mine are paired as I mentioned. But I was misinformed about the SD systems. I was going off this diagram from the guitar wiring site suggested earlier: www.1728.org/guitar.htm
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 10:51:43 GMT -6
I have found that from site to site the colors are more time than not different. When I buy pickups form Guitar fetish or others I always ask them for their wiring diagrams. SD is sometimes different than other retailers. But most retailers do send instructions, but I have found in some cases when I ask for them and they email it to me sometimes it different form the instructions they sent. Go figure. But on most 4 or 5 wire it is red/white green/bare and so on. EB
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Post by georgetd on Jun 6, 2012 15:48:30 GMT -6
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Post by chezvoz on Jun 6, 2012 17:58:06 GMT -6
HA, ha, ha! This is confusing.
I think my first drawing is actually correct to the SD diagram except that my yellow lead (stand in for white lead) comes in to the opposite side of the switch and jumps to the other side.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 18:16:14 GMT -6
HA, ha, ha! This is confusing. I think my first drawing is actually correct to the SD diagram except that my yellow lead (stand in for white lead) comes in to the opposite side of the switch and jumps to the other side. Say that ten times really fast! HA! It's all good! hook it up and see if it works! EB
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Post by dnic on Jun 6, 2012 20:14:09 GMT -6
it's getting clearer 4 pairs for 2 coils. ;D
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Post by chezvoz on Mar 9, 2014 19:14:54 GMT -6
Now that I'm in soldering mode, I'd like to finish this thing and get it wired up. The drawing I made below is what I think would be the best way to connect the ground. The view is from the back. Does it look right? By the way, the TV Jones sight has some interesting tips on how to load the electronics into a hollow body guitar. tvjones.com/resources/videos-sound-clips/how-to-videos/
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Post by chezvoz on Mar 9, 2014 20:28:11 GMT -6
Spent the last hour adding the ground as above and hooking up the pup/pots. NOt a peep out of it. Perhaps I should have kept it simple.
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Post by dnic on Mar 10, 2014 7:39:43 GMT -6
Grounding looks good.
Not a peep? Meaning no hum or no sound at all?
If you have no sound at all then you have both pups grounded out somehow. Prolly both hot and ground wires to ground.
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Post by chezvoz on Mar 10, 2014 11:41:46 GMT -6
OK, thanks. Must be a total ground out.
Hopefully I can get to it tonight.
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