Using A Multimeter To Check Pickup Health
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- If you ever experience any odd behaviour with your guitar setup, it's a good idea to know how to check that your pickups are running as they should be. There are a couple of simple multimeter checks that you can do at home, which will give you a quick indication of the health of your coils, which we run through in this video.
When checking 4 conductor humbuckers, different brands use different colour coding. We have a chart on our website which covers some of the most common setups: www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/...
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Thanks! Clear, fast and to the point! The true treasures of UA-cam
Awesome video! Exactly what I want.
Nice video... also love your pickups. I have a Johnny Marr jag and there's really no Jag pickup that comes close to sounding as good as the custom ones you did for that model.
Why does Low Impedance pickups distort/break up the guitars amplifier Quicker sooner?
Hi I'm having issues with my Emarald neck pickup, it's measuring low resistance when I check the bare wire with the coloured wires, any idea how I fix this?? Cheers, great video!
if you are getting a low reading between the bare and any one of the coloured wires, you most likely have a short circuit between one of the coils and ground, or part of the wiring is touching the baseplate of the pickup. Have a close look for any cuts or wear to the insulation on the wiring to make sure that the bare wire cannot touch any of the others
Is this color code standard for the industry? I have an Ibanez that was tinkered with by a previous owner and I think the pickup wiring is wrong. It has dual mini-humbuckers with 4 leads. There is Red, Green, Black, White and shield. However, the Red and Green are tied together and the whites go to the volume pots. I'm stripping it completely tonight and measuring the coils as you demonstrated but then I need to know the phasing, or "in" and "out" lead color. Thanks.
Hi Erwin, no, there are many different interpretations of 4 conductor wiring colours. you'll need to look up the code for whatever pickups were fitted originally to this guitar.
Hi I just received Gibson 400R&T Humbuckers It puzzled me that when trying to read the resistance touching the bare earth with wire they did not give any reading. I thought they were dead then I stumbled upon this video. Reading between red and black wires both pickups are slightly a over 8Kohms. So how would you connect them in the guitar as full hum buckers. is there a schematic tutorial for this? I alsweay thought it was simple connecting bare earth wire on one end and the other 4 on the other end if you want full hum bucker resistance. These new pickups puzzle me. I would be grateful if you can advise how to solder these ends inside a 335 style guitar. Thank you in advance!
Hi David, here's a link to our conversion chart, which shows how your Gibson wires relate to our colours: www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/upload/support/Humbucker_Colour_Code_Conversion_Chart_1940bd0.pdf
When I ordered a set of True Grit I received two neck pickups in the box. When I called the dealer the only other box in their inventory had two bridge pickups. Quality control problem? It was quickly sorted.
I'm sorry to hear that you had an issue with your purchase, that's certainly not one that I have heard before, but we are only human, so a little mix-up from time to time is certainly possible. I'm glad that the dealer was able to rectify the problem quickly
Good morning friend, I turn to you for a consultation, I just bought some used texas special pickups, they look like new, I have already checked photos and everything corresponds that they are original, but as for the ohms they are well below what the manufacturer specifies, Neck 5.6K, Medium 6K, and Bridge 6.3K (I already used 2 multimeters in case there was a measurement error), while the manufacturer specifies that they must be 6.2K 6.5K 6.7K, will they take turns or would we suspect they are false? I appreciate your valuable comment, best regards!
Resistances can read lower in lower temperatures, so, depending on the climate where you are, that could be the case. I can't really comment on how close those pickups would be likely to be, compared to their published figures, but we have certainly read that those pickups can be a little variable from one set to the next.
I like the background music and actually wanted to ask what amp that player is using. Great tone.
It's a compilation of some of our "classic rock" humbucker clips from our website, which is recorded using a blend of Plexi and AC30 models on a Fractal AxeFX Ultra
I'm about to buy 2 used Bare Knuckle pickups that the owner doesn't have the box, and bought them used. The previous owner said to him that they are Jaggernaut, they read 13.7 and 9.44, une of them have two rows of screws, and the other one two rows of lugs. Are they Jaggernauts or can be some other model like the Bootcamps? Thanks
Hi John, none of the Boot Camp series have double rows of screws and they have a specific Boot Camp baseplates so they are very easy to identify. The numbers that you have for the coil resistance certinly match up to the Juggernaut model
@@BKPickups Thank you very much!
Neck pickup has low output and sounds bad. Meter shows 0.0 reading. I heated where lead strands connect to eyelets. Pickup will then work fine for 2-3 days. Then goes back to low output and sounds bad. What is going on? Thanks
I'm presuming from the description that this is a Strat or Tele pickup? If reheating the joints is getting you temporary improvement, I would suggest adding some fresh solder, as there might be some oxidation in those joints that really needs to be driven out. Ideally, use a solder wick to remove the original solder and completely replace it with fresh.
my humbucker reads .479 MOhms I don't know how to read it in Kilo Ohms, can you help me?
it sounds like you are just getting the reading of your volume pot right there (presuming that the pickups are currently soldered in). Either you have a break in a coil, a bad connection, or simply that your pickup selector isn't set in the right position to measure that pickup
awesome tutorial,,i learned alot here,,,,question i have a paf pro and according to dimarzio the kohm is 8.4,,,when i touch the black and red wires i get a reading of 4.14,,,,,,is there something im missing or maybe not doing something right........hope you can answer,,,thanks for the video,,,so i just connected the black and white together as per dimarzio....and when i touched the green and bare wire then the red wire with the probes i get a reading of 8.30
BKP and Dimarzio use different colour codes for their wires:
www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/upload/support/Humbucker_Colour_Code_Conversion_Chart_1940bd0.pdf
Black and red wires on your Dimarzio gives you the reading of the north coil only. Probes to red and green, with white and black wires connected to each other is the correct way to measure both coils of your Dimarzio in series. Readings of 4.14 on the north coil and 8.3 in series seem healthy/expected.
@@nacl329 thank you,,and thanks for the link as well!
@@mesametal8768 No problem mate.
Is 15k normal for a juggernaut bridge ? And 10 for a neck ?
I'd say that those pickups are hot pickups. I mean high output! Nice!
Turn off the background music
Foreground music more like. Ridiculous.
Hahahaha. I agree though Jesus
Your humbucker has 3 more wires than the one I want to diagnose. I wonder if that's the problem >_>
He's humbucker has wires for all the coils ends/starts, however if you have just two wires, it means you've got just ground and hot wires.
This means you have no access to coil splitting and mods, but nothing more. Just put one pin to ground and the other to hot.
Great video but I have trouble focusing on what you’re explaining because of the music in the background. Probably more my problem than yours! 🤷♀️
Background music is supposed to remind us that we're working on an electric guitar? Just totally distracting.
the background music is annoying while you're explaining, how about turning that sh!t off? no?
Good.
But people forget about Inductance which is not mentioned. It works in combination with the coils .,. Magic soup.
Higher inductance (magnetic field) measured in Henries increases output. You can switch out the magnets in buckers to change characteristics easily.
Get a meter that measures both I would suggest. High k ohms does not necessarily mean louder than lower k ohms, it depends on inductance factored in.
Also capacitance should be low like 2 Pico farads. You can get meters that measure all 3.
Mmh, this might help identifying the damned things too?
Lose the background music please!
Spare us the distracting and annoying background foreground music