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The Pickup Place / is my 5 way switch fubar?
« on: April 23, 2020, 05:50:18 PM »
So a trick I learned a long time ago is to put an ohm meter on the end of the guitar cable and go thru the toggle to learn the ohm rating for the pickups with volume maxed out - helpful in troubleshooting etc. You will see like 17k, 5k, 5k, 5k, 13k on a 5 way with decently hot pickups that auto split in 2 and 4 and a single in middle.
So I have an older guitar HSH with a 5 way and Paf pro, unknown single, paf pro. When I do the ohm trick, bridge shows 515k, then 4k, 5k, 4k, and then 512k at neck. What in the world? I went through all other gutiars and they give PROPER readings, ie, the kohm rating of their installed pickups.
Why would this guitar show 500k+ at neck and bridge, isntead of the 8-10k they should report for PAF's??
So I have an older guitar HSH with a 5 way and Paf pro, unknown single, paf pro. When I do the ohm trick, bridge shows 515k, then 4k, 5k, 4k, and then 512k at neck. What in the world? I went through all other gutiars and they give PROPER readings, ie, the kohm rating of their installed pickups.
Why would this guitar show 500k+ at neck and bridge, isntead of the 8-10k they should report for PAF's??