"New" SD Pegasus showing no signs of life when hooked up, otherwise normal resistance
Firstly Hi - I've been using this board as a resource for years but never had the need to ask a question.
I've treated my '91 RG550 to something of a rebirth. Fully copper shielded it, swapped out the V1/V2s for a Peg/Sent and a quarter pound in the middle position and put a push-pull tone in. The Sentient came boxed and unopened and when fitted works as it should, I repeated the exact same process for the Pegasus (which was clearly pulled out of another guitar) and I get nothing not even a ground hum or any response when tapped by metal (I tried swapping switch positions, so it's not that). I take a multimeter to the live and ground of the Pegasus when fitted I'm getting a fat 0. After pulling it out I get the proper resistance from green-black (12ish k) and green to red/white (6ish k), which I suppose leaves a problem with the ground. I also tested to make sure there's magentisation on each of the pins (there is).
This is where my knowledge is a bit in the dark, should I be getting any sort of signal from the multimeter when touching the ground (bare) wire and another wire, because I get nothing from red and white and barely anything from live (.02 or something). It's the same when I tie the bare ground and green cables together, it kills any signal dead which to me would imply a short, but I have no clue what further that would mean.
Like I said, I've repeated all these tests with the Sentient and it comes through fine. Have I got an Ebay dispute on my hands and If so what can I test to make sure I'm bulletproof incase the bloke tries to pull anything? Hopefully I'm just being an idiot.
Cheers
HW
Firstly Hi - I've been using this board as a resource for years but never had the need to ask a question.
I've treated my '91 RG550 to something of a rebirth. Fully copper shielded it, swapped out the V1/V2s for a Peg/Sent and a quarter pound in the middle position and put a push-pull tone in. The Sentient came boxed and unopened and when fitted works as it should, I repeated the exact same process for the Pegasus (which was clearly pulled out of another guitar) and I get nothing not even a ground hum or any response when tapped by metal (I tried swapping switch positions, so it's not that). I take a multimeter to the live and ground of the Pegasus when fitted I'm getting a fat 0. After pulling it out I get the proper resistance from green-black (12ish k) and green to red/white (6ish k), which I suppose leaves a problem with the ground. I also tested to make sure there's magentisation on each of the pins (there is).
This is where my knowledge is a bit in the dark, should I be getting any sort of signal from the multimeter when touching the ground (bare) wire and another wire, because I get nothing from red and white and barely anything from live (.02 or something). It's the same when I tie the bare ground and green cables together, it kills any signal dead which to me would imply a short, but I have no clue what further that would mean.
Like I said, I've repeated all these tests with the Sentient and it comes through fine. Have I got an Ebay dispute on my hands and If so what can I test to make sure I'm bulletproof incase the bloke tries to pull anything? Hopefully I'm just being an idiot.
Cheers
HW
