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Post subject: Pickup problem
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:18 pm
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Hi, I have a early 90s Strat Ultra. One of the bridge pickups (lace red) is out. Everything else works fine. The question is a two parter. Is it pretty likely that dropping a new pickup in will solve the problem? and secondly, how complicated is it to do? (I dread taking this baby to a guitar shop, I am in the middle of nowhere and just moved here, and know nobody. Also, the Ultras are wired different, so I really don;t want a hack looking through it.) The guitar is fine for practicing, everything works good, but would love to get half my sound options back.


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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:33 pm
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Did you have this pickup working before or you buy the guitar with the pickup not working ?


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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:38 pm
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I bought this brand new many years ago. The pickup just died.


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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:41 pm
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Check this wiring picture from Lace. Your pickups wiring should be like that.

http://www.lacemusic.com/wiring/pdf/1.pdf

Can you test\mesure your pick up with a meter ?


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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:47 pm
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Thanks for the diagram. Yeah, I have a friend who rebuilds electronics. With his help I can easily measure the pickup. Could probably do it myself, but might as well have pro help.


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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:40 pm
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Good. You can mesure the pick up from the guitar jack and put the switch in the position to read the pick up .

If pickup is open may be you can rewind it at lower cost than a new one ?


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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:45 pm
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I am confused, because I am not good at electronics. I thought I had to take the pickguard off and test the leads from the probably bad pickup. Are you saying that it can be done with a meter right where the cord plugs in on the outside jack?


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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:15 am
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Yes, you can mesure the pickups from the guitar output jack.
Put a guitar cable in the jack and plug a meter ( ohms scale) on the other end of the cable.
Volume controls to maximum and tone full bright.

You can read all your pickup and see if difference between them. You should read aroud 8000 ohms at position bridge, center,neck
And around 4000 ohms at pos 2 (bridge/center) pos 4 ( center/neck)

If you read nothing on the bridge pu, you should remove pickgard to check if there is a broken wire on 5 pos switch or a groud wire to volume control body.

If no broken wire; with the meter read directly on the pickup wire. Check with other pu if not sure what you should read.
If you read nothing on bridge pu wire : you need another pu or rewind ($20)

Look at the picture from Lace


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