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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: snipesace on June 15, 2006, 07:47:01 PM

Title: checking output
Post by: snipesace on June 15, 2006, 07:47:01 PM

hey, can anyone help me out, I am trying to check the outupt of my pickups but I keep just getting a reading of 0.00 clearly I am doing something wrong :P lil help?

Title: checking output
Post by: R/2e on June 15, 2006, 08:40:15 PM

You need to disconnect (desolder) the hot from the pot or switch and if you have a coil tap make sure the switch is set so it's not going to earth. You can then measure the resistance with a multimeter, one probe to the hot, one to earth

Title: checking output
Post by: Skybone on June 16, 2006, 10:46:58 AM

Set your multimeter to the 20 Ohm scale, and place one probe on the wire to the tag of the pot (green?) and the other to the earth wire (black). This should give you the reading you're after, assuming that your pickup is wired liked using 2 conductors.

To check the output ohm's, try putting the probes on the output jack, remembering that one wire goes to the tip, the other wire to the jacket of the jack plug.

I think...  :?