Calling Evan Skopp!!!!
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Evan Skopp
SDUGF Founder
Re: Calling Evan Skopp!!!!
LiveWires are really hard to repair because they're epoxy encapsulated. If you did something that actually fried the circuitry, then just give 'em a proper burial and start your mourning period.
Sorry for your loss...
LiveWires are really hard to repair because they're epoxy encapsulated. If you did something that actually fried the circuitry, then just give 'em a proper burial and start your mourning period.
Sorry for your loss...
pinto79
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So, I guess I'm out a Metal and a Classic... Thanks for your respose Evan...
Here's what happened... I won the Metal and a classic HSS set on Ebay for about $70 for all of them. When they finally arrived, I took my Tele apart (It's generally my test mule) and mounted the two humbuckers and connected them to 2 100K pots (all schematics are from the SD Site...) then I connected them to an EMG output jack with the battery clip and strung up 3 clips to make an 18 volt adapter harness, connected the batteries and checked the voltage prior to connecting it to the clip on the jack, voltage was good so I plugged it in and tucked the wiring into the control cavity, plugged in the guitar into my amp and tapped on the pickups with a small screwdriver. I got a nice "Thunk, thunk thunk" noise and then nothing and smoke poured out of the bridge pup cavity. My apartment stunk like burned epoxy for a few hours...
What I think happened was I probably shorted the battery connections to a ground. That's all I can think of.
Back to the drawing board I guess... :smack:
So, I guess I'm out a Metal and a Classic... Thanks for your respose Evan...
Here's what happened... I won the Metal and a classic HSS set on Ebay for about $70 for all of them. When they finally arrived, I took my Tele apart (It's generally my test mule) and mounted the two humbuckers and connected them to 2 100K pots (all schematics are from the SD Site...) then I connected them to an EMG output jack with the battery clip and strung up 3 clips to make an 18 volt adapter harness, connected the batteries and checked the voltage prior to connecting it to the clip on the jack, voltage was good so I plugged it in and tucked the wiring into the control cavity, plugged in the guitar into my amp and tapped on the pickups with a small screwdriver. I got a nice "Thunk, thunk thunk" noise and then nothing and smoke poured out of the bridge pup cavity. My apartment stunk like burned epoxy for a few hours...
What I think happened was I probably shorted the battery connections to a ground. That's all I can think of.
Back to the drawing board I guess... :smack:
Re: Calling Evan Skopp!!!!
METAL or MENTAL?
Sorry, T. If I had a nickel for every stupid thing that I've done, I would be posting from a laptop on a beach in Puerto Vallarta. You want proof? Check my post count and ask around...lol
If you figure out where the mistake was made, post it. It might prevent someone else from making the same mistake.
Jeff5 said:
METAL or MENTAL?
Sorry, T. If I had a nickel for every stupid thing that I've done, I would be posting from a laptop on a beach in Puerto Vallarta. You want proof? Check my post count and ask around...lol
If you figure out where the mistake was made, post it. It might prevent someone else from making the same mistake.
krankguitarist
Krankitupologist
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Damn. Gotta see bout gettin that effect on stage.
Damn. Gotta see bout gettin that effect on stage.
JacksonMIA
Lemur-buckerologist
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Ace Frehley would be proud.
Ace Frehley would be proud.
Artie
Peaveyologist
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Thats the same mistake I made when I first heard of this mod. Its two battery clips to connect to the batteries, and one battery clip to connect to the single pup clip. Its only 18 volts.
But, having said that, shorting the battery to ground wouldn't smoke the pup. It would kill the battery. Something else must have been wrong.
Artie
Edit: Just thinking . . . you may have shorted the pups "output" to 18 volts. That would do it.
Imp said:
Thats the same mistake I made when I first heard of this mod. Its two battery clips to connect to the batteries, and one battery clip to connect to the single pup clip. Its only 18 volts.
But, having said that, shorting the battery to ground wouldn't smoke the pup. It would kill the battery. Something else must have been wrong.
Artie
Edit: Just thinking . . . you may have shorted the pups "output" to 18 volts. That would do it.
Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
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Don't feel bad. I was restringing a guitar a few months ago, and a bolt of lightning shot across the room. Apparently, a dangling string landed in a power strip, and turned into lightning! I was lucky that my flametop wasn't marred, but when I looked at my Vox modeling amp, it was toast! The 120V went through the string, through the electronics, up the cord, and into the digital amp.
Don't feel bad. I was restringing a guitar a few months ago, and a bolt of lightning shot across the room. Apparently, a dangling string landed in a power strip, and turned into lightning! I was lucky that my flametop wasn't marred, but when I looked at my Vox modeling amp, it was toast! The 120V went through the string, through the electronics, up the cord, and into the digital amp.
Evan Skopp
SDUGF Founder
Re: Calling Evan Skopp!!!!
Kinda gives new meaning to "Flametop," doesn't it?
Kinda gives new meaning to "Flametop," doesn't it?
krankguitarist
Krankitupologist
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Ba dum, ching!
Evan Skopp said:
Ba dum, ching!
pinto79
New member
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The batteries got incredibly hot also. I forgot that. 2 9V's ended up at about 3V each afterwards...
ArtieToo said:Thats the same mistake I made when I first heard of this mod. Its two battery clips to connect to the batteries, and one battery clip to connect to the single pup clip. Its only 18 volts.
But, having said that, shorting the battery to ground wouldn't smoke the pup. It would kill the battery. Something else must have been wrong.
Artie
Edit: Just thinking . . . you may have shorted the pups "output" to 18 volts. That would do it.
The batteries got incredibly hot also. I forgot that. 2 9V's ended up at about 3V each afterwards...
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