No Sound: New P Bass Pickup Install

[GuitarDoc]

Adding more solder doesn't help anything.
If you've got your multi set to 20k, then your pup is bad.

[kwatx1]

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.

[ErikH]

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.

[jeremy]

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

[GuitarDoc]

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.

[kwatx1]

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.

[GuitarDoc]

Glad to hear you got things straightened out.

[ehdwuld]

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

[ehdwuld]

Oh

Ok

You got it

I have bought stuff where
Someone put the old one back in the box to get their money back

[Securb]

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

[jeremy]

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?!?