Originally posted by I Rock So Hard
Depending how the guitar is wired it won't be anywhere near close ... your putting your pup's DCR in parallel with other pups(the switch settings), and the volume pot(s), once the tone pot cap charges to the DC of the meter it shouldn't matter. You can't check pup(s) DCR with out disconnecting coil tap/splits and at least one lead (hot or ground) from the rest of the circuit. If anything it will pull the DCR down, not up ... What you're saying here simply does not make sense, it very well may be the truth (in which case I would say that something is wired a bit weird or incorrect), but it doesn't make sense. If you take into account everything else connected and figure the resistance accordingly, and then figure what the pup resistance would be, then yeah, but then is that 500k pot that you figured in really 500k? That stuff can alter the results to a large degree, much better off just disconnected one lead on the pup (and any coil tap/splits), and then taking your measurement there.
Still the other guys (very low readings, and then high readings) sounds like he was originally doing something like the above guy, and then maybe didn't get good connections. You got to get solid good connections to the probes.
To measure each coil individually (SD pups) check the black and white (one coil), then the red and green (the other coil), the two value added together should give you the total pup value in series (normal humbucking mode);
for parallel humbucking mode take 1/ resistance of coil A + 1/ resistance of coil B = 1/ answer (meaning take the answer, and then take the reciprocal of it {divide 1 by it} that will give you your answer.
To measure it with the meter series is like they said red and white together, one lead to black, and the other lead to green; for parallel ... black and red together, one probe here; and white and green together, the other probe here. In parallel it doesn't matter whether they ae joined in phase or not, but I thought I'd list the clolour codes as in phase to avoid confusion down the line. Your readings should be close to the stated values (catalogue) at room temperature, only series resistance is shown (for humbuckers) and that's all that's needed to see if your pup is functioning properly, the rest is simply for your curiousity.
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