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Post subject: Vintage Noiseless wiring
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 3:17 pm
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Just bought a Vintage Noiseless set. The set came with 2 - 1meg pots and 1- 250. The wiring diagram that came with it shows wiring for 3- 1 meg pots. I assume this 250 should be installed in the volume position. Should I wire the 250 using the 680cap and 220 resistor that also came with the set? Would appreciate any help. Thanks.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless wiring
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:07 pm
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fshboat wrote:
Just bought a Vintage Noiseless set. The set came with 2 - 1meg pots and 1- 250. The wiring diagram that came with it shows wiring for 3- 1 meg pots. I assume this 250 should be installed in the volume position. Should I wire the 250 using the 680cap and 220 resistor that also came with the set? Would appreciate any help. Thanks.


Your assumption of the 250K pot is correct. Do not use the 680 cap and 220 resistor as the sweep of the volume pot will be erratic and the pickups will sound anemic as you roll back the volume. I would also recommend that you do not use the 1 meg pots either. Rather, use 250Ks all around instead.

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Post subject: Dud Pickups?
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:42 pm
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I bought a set of strat Vintange Noiseless to build a clapton style pickguard with the mid boost kit. Finally got time to wire it up today, but the pickups are producing no output. I swapped them into my american standard pickguard, and still no output. I put the american std Pickups in the new pickguard, and the whole thing works fine... I suspect the pickups are the issue... I tried putting a multimeter across the pickup leads, and get infinite resistance on all 3.

Anyone got any ideas here?


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Post subject: Re: Dud Pickups?
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:18 am
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SplintUk wrote:
I bought a set of strat Vintange Noiseless to build a clapton style pickguard with the mid boost kit. Finally got time to wire it up today, but the pickups are producing no output. I swapped them into my american standard pickguard, and still no output. I put the american std Pickups in the new pickguard, and the whole thing works fine... I suspect the pickups are the issue... I tried putting a multimeter across the pickup leads, and get infinite resistance on all 3.

Anyone got any ideas here?


IMO, the overall construction of the whole "Noiseless" series of pickups is rather frail. I wouldn't be surprised at all if you got three duds. Hopefully, you can exchange them.

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Post subject: Noiseless pickups volume & tone Pots
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:20 pm
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Some months ago I purchased a complete set New In Box noiseless pickups with pots for my MIM strat from Ebay. Now that I started on the project of changing it over, I discovered that I have 2 250K pots for tone and 1 500K pot for Volume. I looked over the wiring diagram & parts listing offered online and found that it's normally set up with 3 250K pots.
Was there a mix up in the shipping dept? Or is the 500k the right control for the volume?
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Seems to be a lot of inconsistancy with the vintage noiseless sets. Surprises me coming from Fender. I have wired mine using the pots supplied, 250k in the volumn position and the 2 - 1meg pots in the tone positions. However, I will be prepared to change them out to all 250's.

I'm still pretty new at this but it was my understanding that you use 250's with single coils, 500k pots with humbuckers.


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Post subject: Re: Noiseless pickups volume & tone Pots
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:04 pm
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dalefty75 wrote:
Some months ago I purchased a complete set New In Box noiseless pickups with pots for my MIM strat from Ebay. Now that I started on the project of changing it over, I discovered that I have 2 250K pots for tone and 1 500K pot for Volume. I looked over the wiring diagram & parts listing offered online and found that it's normally set up with 3 250K pots.
Was there a mix up in the shipping dept? Or is the 500k the right control for the volume?
Thanks guy!


Fender was switching around the pot combinations for a while trying to evoke the most out of the Noiseless line. I've found that all pots being 250K work best.

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Post subject: Re: Noiseless pickups volume & tone Pots
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:29 pm
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dalefty75 wrote:
Some months ago I purchased a complete set New In Box noiseless pickups with pots for my MIM strat from Ebay. Now that I started on the project of changing it over, I discovered that I have 2 250K pots for tone and 1 500K pot for Volume. I looked over the wiring diagram & parts listing offered online and found that it's normally set up with 3 250K pots.
Was there a mix up in the shipping dept? Or is the 500k the right control for the volume?
Thanks guy!

Could someone point me to the wiring diagram for these. I can't seem to find them. I, too got some from Ebay but without the directions.


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Post subject: Re: Noiseless pickups volume & tone Pots
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 2:49 pm
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rcolejr wrote:
dalefty75 wrote:
Some months ago I purchased a complete set New In Box noiseless pickups with pots for my MIM strat from Ebay. Now that I started on the project of changing it over, I discovered that I have 2 250K pots for tone and 1 500K pot for Volume. I looked over the wiring diagram & parts listing offered online and found that it's normally set up with 3 250K pots.
Was there a mix up in the shipping dept? Or is the 500k the right control for the volume?
Thanks guy!

Could someone point me to the wiring diagram for these. I can't seem to find them. I, too got some from Ebay but without the directions.


Welcome.

Fender has switched around the resistance values of the pots for their Noiseless pickup sets multiple times over the years. In wake of this, it seems that only occasionally does one get a parts listing which matches the actual value of the pot set received.

With the 'version' you have, that 500K pot was indeed, meant to be for the volume control. You can use the diagram your received with no problem in spite of the fact that the diagram shows a three 250K ones.

Note: You would surely do best with three 250K pots. However, if you don't have an extra one, I recommend that you use that 500K pot for the upper tone (neck pickup) control. Again, use the enclosed wiring diagram as usual.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless wiring
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:54 am
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HELLO EVERYBODY!

TWO WEEKS ago I purchased a complete set New In Box noiseless pickups with 1 500K POT AND 2-1MEGK POTS. but the wiring diagram has in the picture and instructions 3 1.meg pots, please somebody examplain me this its an erro from fender ?? what i have to do??


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless wiring
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:10 am
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TOMAS POBLADOR wrote:
HELLO EVERYBODY!

TWO WEEKS ago I purchased a complete set New In Box noiseless pickups with 1 500K POT AND 2-1MEGK POTS. but the wiring diagram has in the picture and instructions 3 1.meg pots, please somebody examplain me this its an erro from fender ?? what i have to do??


Welcome.

Ideally, you should use your existing 250K ones. If you choose to use the three new ones however, the 500K pot is for volume and the two 1000K pots are for tone.

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Post subject: Vintage Noiseless wiring & 250k pots
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:01 am
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Martian, at the risk of sounding like a "Johnny-come-lately", I must say you certainly have been expounding the wisdom of using all 250k pots for the VN's for quite a while, can't believe I didn't catch this thread in the first place, good job!


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Noiseless wiring & 250k pots
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:45 am
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Maiki Starwood wrote:
Martian, at the risk of sounding like a "Johnny-come-lately", I must say you certainly have been expounding the wisdom of using all 250k pots for the VN's for quite a while, can't believe I didn't catch this thread in the first place, good job!


Thank you! :D

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