Did I fry my new pickups?

[soussherpa]

I just got done installing my Gus.G Fire blackouts into my new Jackson DK2MQ Pro Series Dinky quilt top.

5-Position Blade: Position 1. Full Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Two Inside Single Coils, Position 3. Both Full Humbucking Pickups, Position 4. Outer Neck Single Coil, Position 5. Full Neck Pickup



I used the three way toggle wiring diagram and the 2 humbucker 1 volume, 1 tone super 5 way switch diagram to go by.

The pickups work in 2nd and 4th switch position. 1st, 3rd, and 5th postion give a signal, but I can't really hear it and barely registers ( I was playing into a presonus audio card into my mac).


The volume and tone don't work at all. when it's in 2nd and 4th position it's at full volume.

I was careful installing it and soldering

Did I ruin the electronics in this thing?

Sherp

 

[GoldenVulture]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

More than likely you made a mistake/mistakes. Check and double check your wiring. Put up a pic and we can check it out.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

Without pics, my best guess is that your grounding connections for the humbuckers are wrong. Only the split coils are reaching ground properly to complete the circuit.

Where is the pre-amp pot in your circuit?

 

[soussherpa]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?




Hope this helps.

You can't see it but there is a black ground wire soldered on the right side of the 5 way switch that goes to ground on the preamp/pot.

Thanks

 

[Securb]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

Did you use a soldering iron or a soldering gun. You should never use a soldering gun on pickups the coils in the soldering gun can demagnetize the pickup magnets. Magnets in active pickups are generally weaker and even more susceptible to being demagnetized.

 

[soussherpa]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

A soldering gun, but that was only for the tone pot, the input jack and wires that lead to the switch. The rest go into the preamp/volume pot solder-less. In other words the pickups were not soldered at all.

All the soldering was done before everything was hooked up.

Do you think the potentiometer or the tone pot got fried?

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

I used the three way toggle wiring diagram and the 2 humbucker 1 volume, 1 tone super 5 way switch diagram to go by.

Which exact diagrams did you follow? The Blackouts Modular Pre-Amp screw-in terminal layout is not configured to work with two pickups via a four-pole, five position selector switch.

 

[soussherpa]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

I used the digram for the blackout modular.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

The Support area of this website features eight schematic diagrams for the BMP. None of these features a 24-contact Superswitch.

 

[soussherpa]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

My main concern is if I did any damage. I put the ground to the bridge to the ground on the preamp volume pot, That's the only difference in the wiring from the Blackout modular preamp wiring diagram (2 Humbuckers, 1V, 1 T 3 way switch).

I tested the tone pot with a multimeter, and that got a reading, so that seems to be okay, even though the volume and tone pots don't work.

 

[allstarrme]

Re: Did I fry my new pickups?

that 5 way switch looks like its all sorts of wrong. if you are gonna split them like that you would need to do it before the preamp then feed the wires into the preamp, not the other way around. even then the preamp works in pairs so getting them to work the way you want would mean a whole lot of wires going into the preamp. honestly I would put a 3 position switch in there and get everything working first before you go messing with it.

the 5 way is not splitting them as you are getting full humbucking output of both coils together coming out of the preamp. also I don't see all 4 output wires on the 5 way hooked up.