Tried to install Invader in bridge of Fender Meteora (HH). Now no volume from neck.

morbid_stuff

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Hi all,
First post here after my 3rd attempt to install new Invader pickup into my Fender Meteora HH in the bridge position. I initially tried to install it by just copying the exact wiring setup as the stock bridge pickup, which you can see here: https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/Original/10001/SM_0143823000_Meteora_HH_PF.PDF

Both the neck and the bridge worked individually, but with the toggle switch in the middle position, the guitar was out of phase. After some research I found that the wiring for the SD is different from a Fender, so I tried again. This time I followed this wiring diagram: https://www.seymourduncan.com/images/wiring-diagrams/2H_3G_2V_1TppSPL.jpg

The only difference between this diagram and my guitar is that the Meteora has a push button that swaps the volume of the two pickups. (For example, if the neck has no volume and the bridge is turned up, toggling the button will work like a killswitch). But there is no diagram that takes this into account.

Anyway, now the bridge works fine but the neck has no volume at all. I used a multimeter to check both pickups. The bridge reading is 8ish, the neck is reading as an open loop. Not sure why as I'm about...95% sure I did not touch the neck electronics at all.

Not sure what to try now and really, getting all the strings off & disassembling this thing to get at the electronics is a PITA. Any advice before I try again is appreciated. Cheers.
 
welcome to the forum! sounds like ya messed something up :D

the invader should read 16k+ so 8k is only one coil. if you wire it like the first link but for the invader use green as hot , red/white soldered together as your series link (the green/white in the fender diagram), and the black and bare as ground (red and bare in the fender diagram), you should be good.
 
welcome to the forum! sounds like ya messed something up :D

the invader should read 16k+ so 8k is only one coil. if you wire it like the first link but for the invader use green as hot , red/white soldered together as your series link (the green/white in the fender diagram), and the black and bare as ground (red and bare in the fender diagram), you should be good.

I sure did. Thanks for the reply. Sorry to be a pain but I'm not following you all the way. You're saying solder black + bare to the neck volume pot for ground, that I can follow. Red + white I solder together and leave alone? Or solder together on the tone knob (where the black and white meet from the stock bridge pickup in the Fender diagram)? And green goes to the same place that the green from the stock pickup goes?
 
I sure did. Thanks for the reply. Sorry to be a pain but I'm not following you all the way. You're saying solder black + bare to the neck volume pot for ground, that I can follow. Red + white I solder together and leave alone? Or solder together on the tone knob (where the black and white meet from the stock bridge pickup in the Fender diagram)? And green goes to the same place that the green from the stock pickup goes?

OK, I wired it like this and....back to my original issue, with some improvements I think. The middle position on the switch sounds out of phase again. But I'm getting just under 16k as a reading on the Invader now. 8k on the neck, and only 5-ish k when using both. I swear it didn't sound out of phase when I first tested it, and of course, I went ahead and basically re-assembled the whole thing again. D'oh.
 
if it sounds out of phase, switch the black and green duncan wires. i know fender and duncan singles can be out of phase but dont really use fender buckers so dont know about them
 
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