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Post subject: Tex-mex pickup question
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:34 pm
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I've purchased a neck and middle tex-mex pickup. The problem is I think I've mixed them up can anyone tell the wire colors for each. One is yellow and black (middle ?)and the other is red and yellow that I thought was the neck but when I was looking at a nashville tele wiring diagram it showed red and yellow for the middle (I'm Building a Partscaster Nashville with a Strat neck p/u) So I did not solder anything up yet. Thanks


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Post subject: Re: Tex-mex pickup question
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:49 am
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I've seen Tex-Mex pickups with lots of different pairings in terms of the colors of their lead wires.

If one of the two of these pickups is (or you suspect is) reverse wound and reverse polarity (RW/RP), gently and as briefly as possible, put the bottom of one pickup to the top of the other. If the pole pieces attract, they are not RW/RP. If they do repel, then you know one of these two pickups is RW/RP. As to deducing which one it is, I presume you have a third pickup for your project. With this third pickup, place the bottom of each of the above two pickups separately to the top of this third pickup. One will not repel, the other will. The one that does repel is your RW/RP and middle pickup.

If none are RW/RP, test the first two's DC resistance with a multi-meter. The one with the higher resistance would be for the middle position, the lower resistance, for the neck position.

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I've purchased a neck and middle tex-mex pickup. The problem is I think I've mixed them up can anyone tell the wire colors for each. One is yellow and black (middle ?)and the other is red and yellow that I thought was the neck but when I was looking at a nashville tele wiring diagram it showed red and yellow for the middle (I'm Building a Partscaster Nashville with a Strat neck p/u) So I did not solder anything up yet. Thanks

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