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Lewguitar
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When you installed your Ant II Surfer neck and middle and your Ant I Texas Hot Custom bridge pickup, did you run into phase problems?
I did!
I wanted a neck and middle set of Surfers that I could compare to my neck and middle Fralin Vintage Hots (3% underwound to just under 6K) and Steel Pole 43 bridge...for the Ultimate Stratocaster Tone thread I'm in the middle of.
So I went through my inventory and found a neck Surfer that was 6K and a middle Surfer that was 6.47K and a Texas Hot Custom bridge that was just over 10K.
(Amazing range of DC resistance with the Surfers: anywhere from 6K to 6.5K! That's alot of difference, IMO, but it's nice to able to fine tune a set like that too.)
But I suspected something might be amiss, so checked the polarity and found that the Texas Hot Custom bridge was not reverse polarity with the middle Surfer pickup...which, for humcancelling, it should be!
Seems like there are differeces between the Texas Hots and Surfers other than the magnet type! Seems that the polarity is reversed between the two types of pickups for one thing.
I wound up installing the middle Surfer in the neck position and the neck surfer in the middle position. Now I had a reverse polarity middle pickup.
But when I strung it up, I found that the Texas Hot bridge was out of phase with the two Surfers! So I had to reverse the black and white wires of the bridge pickup: black to hot and white to ground.
Wasn't a big deal...for some reason I suspected that was going to be the case so I didn't cut the wires to length for the bridge pickup until I knew I had it right.
Now it works perfectly...but my question is: did you have to do the same thing?
If you didn't, I wonder if you don't actually have a full set of Surfers in your Strat????
Anyways, I didn't end up the combo I really wanted: 6K neck and 6.47K middle...they're reversed! I guess I need to find a 6K middle I can use as a neck pickup...shouldn't be hard.
Lew
I did!
I wanted a neck and middle set of Surfers that I could compare to my neck and middle Fralin Vintage Hots (3% underwound to just under 6K) and Steel Pole 43 bridge...for the Ultimate Stratocaster Tone thread I'm in the middle of.
So I went through my inventory and found a neck Surfer that was 6K and a middle Surfer that was 6.47K and a Texas Hot Custom bridge that was just over 10K.
(Amazing range of DC resistance with the Surfers: anywhere from 6K to 6.5K! That's alot of difference, IMO, but it's nice to able to fine tune a set like that too.)
But I suspected something might be amiss, so checked the polarity and found that the Texas Hot Custom bridge was not reverse polarity with the middle Surfer pickup...which, for humcancelling, it should be!
Seems like there are differeces between the Texas Hots and Surfers other than the magnet type! Seems that the polarity is reversed between the two types of pickups for one thing.
I wound up installing the middle Surfer in the neck position and the neck surfer in the middle position. Now I had a reverse polarity middle pickup.
But when I strung it up, I found that the Texas Hot bridge was out of phase with the two Surfers! So I had to reverse the black and white wires of the bridge pickup: black to hot and white to ground.
Wasn't a big deal...for some reason I suspected that was going to be the case so I didn't cut the wires to length for the bridge pickup until I knew I had it right.
Now it works perfectly...but my question is: did you have to do the same thing?
If you didn't, I wonder if you don't actually have a full set of Surfers in your Strat????
Anyways, I didn't end up the combo I really wanted: 6K neck and 6.47K middle...they're reversed! I guess I need to find a 6K middle I can use as a neck pickup...shouldn't be hard.
Lew
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