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  • #16
    Adding more solder doesn't help anything.
    If you've got your multi set to 20k, then your pup is bad.
    Originally Posted by IanBallard
    Rule of thumb... the more pot you have, the better your tone.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by GuitarDoc View Post
      Adding more solder doesn't help anything.
      If you've got your multi set to 20k, then your pup is bad.
      When I test my Tele I get accurate (or at least believable) readings for the bridge and neck pickups as you would expect so it’s not the multi or user error.
      Have a hard time believing the actual pickups are bad, seems way more likely I’ve botched something up though.

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      • #18
        If you put the DMM leads on the hot and ground of the pickup, with it set to 20K, and it reads nothing, the pickup is bad. Do the same with the pickup you pulled for verification.

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        • #19
          you can also test the two coils directly on the solder points if the whole thing doesnt give you a reading. id guess one coil might be bad

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          • #20
            Originally posted by kwatx1 View Post

            When I test my Tele I get accurate (or at least believable) readings for the bridge and neck pickups as you would expect so it’s not the multi or user error.
            Have a hard time believing the actual pickups are bad, seems way more likely I’ve botched something up though.
            Exactly my point.
            If you tested your pup with a multi set at 20k and you get a reading on .08, then believe it or not (your choice) but the pup is bad. By "pup is bad" I mean that there is something wrong at some point between the two points where you tested it. Could be a broken lead or ground wire coming from the pup...easy fix. Could be a broken connection between the two pup bodies (a P bass, right?)...easy fix. Could be a broken coil wire...not so easy fix.
            Originally Posted by IanBallard
            Rule of thumb... the more pot you have, the better your tone.

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            • #21
              Replacement set arrived today and immediately popped up a reading on the multi out of the pack. I notice that in the last set I received the pickups were not wired together in the pack and there was no sticker on the back with the details like this one has.
              Guess someone retuned it before and it was resold as new.

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              • #22
                Glad to hear you got things straightened out.
                Originally Posted by IanBallard
                Rule of thumb... the more pot you have, the better your tone.

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                • #23
                  You do have the volume knob up don't you?


                  Plug in your guitar cable

                  Test with the meter on 20K ohms
                  Tip of the cable jack to the sleeve of the cable jack

                  What does it read?
                  Open or shorted? Should read pickup
                  Check volume knob up full

                  Now check tip of cable jack to back of volume pot
                  tests cable and Jack ground

                  Sleeve of cable jack to volume pot either pickup lug or outpu jack lug
                  checks jack and cable hot

                  Now pickup lug to output lug
                  checks pot

                  Now pickup lug to back of pot
                  checks pickups

                  Tell us what your results are

                  That should be the entrie circuit
                  Last edited by ehdwuld; 05-20-2024, 01:40 PM.
                  EHD
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                  • #24
                    Oh

                    Ok

                    You got it

                    I have bought stuff where
                    Someone put the old one back in the box to get their money back
                    EHD
                    Just here surfing Guitar Pron
                    RG2EX1 w/ SD hot-rodded pickups / RG4EXFM1 w/ Carvin S22j/b + FVN middle
                    SR500 / Martin 000CE-1/Epiphone Hummingbird
                    Epiphone Florentine with OEM Probuckers
                    Ehdwuld branded Blue semi hollow custom with JB/Jazz
                    Reptile Green Gibson Custom Studio / Aqua Dean Shire semi hollow with piezo
                    Carvin Belair / Laney GC80A Acoustic Amp (a gift from Guitar Player Mag)
                    GNX3000 (yea I'm a modeler)

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                    • #25
                      Just a sanity check you didn't use a soildering gun did you? They can demagnatize the pickup.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by kwatx1 View Post
                        Replacement set arrived today and immediately popped up a reading on the multi out of the pack. I notice that in the last set I received the pickups were not wired together in the pack and there was no sticker on the back with the details like this one has.
                        Guess someone retuned it before and it was resold as new.
                        not soldered is a huge issue. did you get this one wired in? sound good?!?

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