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ethan_hanus

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I think I just killed my Painkiller, help.
« on: November 04, 2010, 05:31:19 AM »
Pretty much a simple rewiring gone wrong, something that should of taken me about 20 minutes to do has turned into a 4 hour nightmare. I've wired up simple HSS guitars just fine in the past with not a damn problem, except tonight. That asshole that originally installed the PK cut all, all of the wire off that wasn't needed, so I'm left with a 2 1/2 inch stub of wire that's apparently faulty, every time I put pressure on any of the wires, mainly the bare ground wire, the PK stops grounding and acts normal, but the second I let go, nothing, it grounds out. So, trying to cut up through the stub of a wire, I accidentally cut the black wire. shite, so I get a piece of it bare, solder on a new wire to it, heat shrink it, and now it's worse, now I have to push up on the black and ground wire to get anything. WTF is going on!!!.

The other two pickups, two Trilogy Suites, they work perfectly fine, it's just the Painkiller. I'm so frustrated I want to kill somebody. Is there any way, I can get the wiring replaced in this pickup that's not going to cost me a shite ton of money? Cause, at this point, it's all jacked up, and I'll be damned if I let a $150 pickup go in the trash because of some shite head that cut the wire too short.
Working on it.

Afghan Dave

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Re: I think I just killed my Painkiller, help.
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 05:58:26 AM »
Keep calm all can and will be solved  :P

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ethan_hanus

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Re: I think I just killed my Painkiller, help.
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2010, 05:30:51 PM »
Austin, Texas. I slept on it, and I've calmed down a bit, and today I'm going to try and cut up farther into the wire to see if I can get some slack and try to get rid of that ground fault, pray that I don't screw up.

EDIT: Ok, so I cut up all the way into the wire, and basically wired it backwards, black and red are soldered together, and the green and white are now my main leads, and it worked, fairly well. Somehow I managed to get everything to work normally, the switch pops though when switching pickups, but I don't care, as long as everything works.
« Last Edit: November 04, 2010, 06:51:51 PM by ethan_hanus »
Working on it.