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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: Michael A Porter on July 27, 2006, 07:17:36 AM

Title: single coil grounding
Post by: Michael A Porter on July 27, 2006, 07:17:36 AM

When you're grounding a single coil pickup in a sheilded guitar should you still put the ground to the bridge or on the shielding tape?  I'm asking because for some reason I think somewhere I had read that you want to ground them to the bridge.  If this is the truth why?

Title: single coil grounding
Post by: gingataff on July 27, 2006, 08:22:10 AM

I thought the ground would usually go to a pot casing, which is in turn grounded to the bridge and the body shielding. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Title: single coil grounding
Post by: Michael A Porter on July 27, 2006, 08:49:02 AM

well i meant from the pot but yeah where it goes from there im not sure.  for some reason the random bits of information ive read have just confused me.  is anything even different when dealing with single coils?

Title: single coil grounding
Post by: DeanS on July 27, 2006, 09:25:44 AM

Pots are grounded out to the claw plate on a trem bridge version with some Fender versions having a second ground wire, see below

http://fender.com/support/diagrams/

Title: single coil grounding
Post by: deg0ey on July 28, 2006, 05:54:03 PM

You wanna be careful to avoid ground loops though - If you ground something twice terrible things can happen...

The main example of this is that if your shielding connects the chassis of the pots to each other (which it should) and then you have a ground wire running between them, it's a bad thing. I forget why it's a bad thing, I just remember that it is :lol: