Re: Using a breadboard to tryout pickup configurations
Wuda guy!
You're in the pocket!
Well, I'll definitely check out those URL's. And thanks. Frankly, I had realized I might have gone off the thread with that question.
But I did review your professionally organized diagrams mentioned above.
Just a few points.
GIVEN:
http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/nalo1022/examples.png
For reference purposes allow me to "number" the views left to right as 1 - 5. I'm assuming that:
a) the plugin strips adjacent to the "red" and "blue" bars on the breadboard are electrically continuous for that color even though they're grouped in blocks of 5 for the length of the "breadboard" connector AND red is NOT connected to blue in the board. For this discussion they'll be referred to as the red and blue bus bars respectively.
b) the pick up is composed of dual identical coils with 2 leads per coil. The four resulting leads have been color coded as "red", "green", "black", and "gray". (It's not clear from the diagrams how they represent their coil's winding.)
c) given:
http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/nalo1022/breadboard-1.jpg
the "red" bus is ground and the "blue" bus is undefined.
From figure 1's explanation the coils are identified as red/green and gray/black where the coil winding senses are: red = black and green = gray.
From figure 4, black|gray = north; then red|green = south
My questions:
1) Re. 2, 4: Where is that "lime" colored jumper going? Or what are you intending to show? [POSSIBLY - 2: lime wants to go to the red bus not blue; 4: lime also goes to red and not blue]
GIVEN:
http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/nalo1022/breadboard-1.jpg
1) You NEED to ground (show a symbol) AT the guitar body where the black wire is connected to the Output Jack sleeve. Otherwise, as shown, the tone control has no effect and the volume control will merely introduce a variable resistor in series with the PUps.
Remember: Critics are always one step behind.
FINALLY: Nice job on the diagrams. So much closer to the real thing.
