Hi all,
I'm not very technically minded. Please help me out.
When measured outside the guitar at 70F my PAFs measure 7.35k and 8.58k
When measured from the tip of a short guitar cord inside the guitar they measure. ~7.67k and 8.47k
Typically I've seen the values decrease in circuit as in all my other guitars with this meter. Makes sense since the pot is in parallel with the pickup decreasing total resistance. My concern is that something is adding resistance to the neck pickup only.
The circuit follows the 50's wiring. I measured bridge lug 1 to ground and bridge wiper to ground and got the same value, 8.47K. I measured neck lug 1 to ground and got 7.25K which I would expect given the pickup measures around 7.35K out of the guitar. Neck wiper to ground measures 7.67K though (same as output jack). Also it seems the elevated resistance at the output jack neck position varies. Over the last week have seen it as low as 7.47K and as high as 7.8k.
I have plenty of worn pots on hand and I haven't found one where the resistance across the pot differs from the resistance to the wiper in open position. Pot has no audible issues with intermittent signal or scratchiness. This I presume leaves the switch neck side only as the culprit or maybe the soldering or tone cap?? Maybe oxidation on the switch? Has anyone experienced something similar? What if any effect on the tone could this have? In a perfect circuit there should be no added resistance (like in by bridge position) so I feel I need to correct this but would like to get some input on how to go about it.
I'm not very technically minded. Please help me out.
When measured outside the guitar at 70F my PAFs measure 7.35k and 8.58k
When measured from the tip of a short guitar cord inside the guitar they measure. ~7.67k and 8.47k
Typically I've seen the values decrease in circuit as in all my other guitars with this meter. Makes sense since the pot is in parallel with the pickup decreasing total resistance. My concern is that something is adding resistance to the neck pickup only.
The circuit follows the 50's wiring. I measured bridge lug 1 to ground and bridge wiper to ground and got the same value, 8.47K. I measured neck lug 1 to ground and got 7.25K which I would expect given the pickup measures around 7.35K out of the guitar. Neck wiper to ground measures 7.67K though (same as output jack). Also it seems the elevated resistance at the output jack neck position varies. Over the last week have seen it as low as 7.47K and as high as 7.8k.
I have plenty of worn pots on hand and I haven't found one where the resistance across the pot differs from the resistance to the wiper in open position. Pot has no audible issues with intermittent signal or scratchiness. This I presume leaves the switch neck side only as the culprit or maybe the soldering or tone cap?? Maybe oxidation on the switch? Has anyone experienced something similar? What if any effect on the tone could this have? In a perfect circuit there should be no added resistance (like in by bridge position) so I feel I need to correct this but would like to get some input on how to go about it.
