JB Impedance

Strat2424

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I just bought a JB and want to check it before installation. If I shunt the red and white leads, how much DC resistance should I measure accross the green and black leads?

Thanks,
Strat2424
 
Re: JB Impedance

Strat2424 said:
I just bought a JB and want to check it before installation. If I shunt the red and white leads, how much DC resistance should I measure accross the green and black leads?

Thanks,
Strat2424

About 16.4K or so...if the red and white are connected together.
 
Re: JB Impedance

Strat2424 said:
I just bought a JB and want to check it before installation. If I shunt the red and white leads, how much DC resistance should I measure accross the green and black leads?

Thanks,
Strat2424

it means that there's another way to wire this Pick up

I got black (+) red & white are joint and green and wire to ground

Something better?
 
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Parallel wiring: on the JB one of the best! Look into the instruction delivered with the JB or on the homepage!
 
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xicodelico said:
it means that there's another way to wire this Pick up

I got black (+) red & white are joint and green and wire to ground

Something better?

Not better, but different... you can use the 4 wires for all sorts of series /parallel, coil splitting and other funky wiring schemes :)
 
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Personally, I would not bother with the parallel wiring. Not that it doesn't sound good: it does. But the single coil tone is much better. I'd just wire it up to a switch to split the pickup from series to single....and forget about parallel: it's weaker than single. Lew
 
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Lewguitar said:
Personally, I would not bother with the parallel wiring. Not that it doesn't sound good: it does. But the single coil tone is much better. I'd just wire it up to a switch to split the pickup from series to single....and forget about parallel: it's weaker than single. Lew

The few times I've wired a pup in parallel, I'd have to side with Lew on this one. There was one exception however. That was the time I wired a Cool Rails bridge as a middle pup between two other Cool Rails. In that case, I specifically wanted it to be a weaker, different tone, (and remain humbucking). It worked.

Artie
 
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ArtieToo said:
Yes, but only at zero hz. As the frequency goes up, impedance does also.
As I said/meant: != means "not equal" ;) at least in programming languages like C
 
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