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Post subject: SCN's in series w/4-pos tele switch?
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:44 am
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Billy Pirie - Fender wrote:
The results of this experiment resulted in MORE options. Not only do these SCN's retain all of the single coil love and feel without hum, you can also wire them in parallel without a loss in output. WOW. Nowhere else will you find a hum-cancelling pickup that sounds exactly like a true single coil, adds more magnetic "dynamics" and have the ability to wire in either series or parallel.


Hey gang, first post, burning question, soldering iron warming up as we speak. Anyway, I just put in a set of SCN pickups in my Strat. My wiring is strange: neck and bridge pu's hooked up to a tele 4-way switch, output of switch to CW tab of volume pot, middle pu to a blend pot (250k wired as a variable resistor in place of one of the tone pots) and then to CW tab of volume pot.

Grounding: ground wire from 4-way, black wires from bridge and middle pu, tone control cap and CCW tab of vol pot soldered to back of vol pot. Green wires from all pu's, output jack ground, and bridge ground wire soldered to back of tone pot. (vol pot was getting crowded.) The pickguard shielding connects the two ground points.

With the bridge and middle pu's: no hum. Anything involving the neck pu hums like a regular single coil (neck alone, neck and bridge parallel, neck and bridge series.) phase doesn't change the hum, either. The tone is right on, though. So, I really want to make these SCN's work.

That's my longwinded problem. Any theories. Is there anything I should try?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

-n


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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:16 am
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Wow, just wow. The technical expertise here is just staggering. We've got 26 replies to "What's your favorite cable?" and someone else wringing his hands over a $40 stompbox tuner. Awesome.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:46 pm
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Answer: neck pickup hums and is defective. Middle pickup in same config does not hum. Bought them used, so I've got to man up and eat it.

Is there any easy way to open up the pickup and examine the innards for a break? Am I going to find a bunch of wax or a bunch of epoxy?


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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:51 pm
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Nope you shouldn't unless these are odd ones, here is a diagram
http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/i-5961/5961_1.jpg
Good Luck :wink:


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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:23 am
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Yeah, that's a humbucker allrighty. But, that's not the pickup in question. Thanks, though.


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