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Post subject: Single Coil Indentifcation? Odd lead colors
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:04 pm
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There's a guy selling two pickups from a USA Strat for a good price, but I can't figure out what pickups they are and I'm worried they're not USA Fender pickups. The bobbins have the 016730 mark on them, so at least I know they're Fender. Any idea what model they are? I'm assuming the greens are the ground?

Bridge - 7.6k Fender USA Alnico staggered (white & green wire) – 6” lead

Middle - 7.3k Fender USA Alnico staggered (RWRP) (red & green wire) –6.5” lead

It seems like the middle coil has a pretty high resistance?


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Post subject: Re: Single Coil Indentifcation? Odd lead colors
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:22 pm
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FluxD1 wrote:
There's a guy selling two pickups from a USA Strat for a good price, but I can't figure out what pickups they are and I'm worried they're not USA Fender pickups. The bobbins have the 016730 mark on them, so at least I know they're Fender. Any idea what model they are? I'm assuming the greens are the ground?

Bridge - 7.6k Fender USA Alnico staggered (white & green wire) – 6” lead

Middle - 7.3k Fender USA Alnico staggered (RWRP) (red & green wire) –6.5” lead

It seems like the middle coil has a pretty high resistance?

Thanks in advance :)


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I don't remember ever seeing that wire color combination. I would consider the possibility that he may have redone the wires himself.

I would presume the green wires are the negatives although with these types of Strat pickups, they are not polarized. Meaning, they can be hooked up either way.

Yes, for or an RW/RP model, that resistance is rather high.

When you say, "for a good price", in today's day and age, this sends a signal to me that these pickups have been tampered with.

As always, the above is merely IMO where YMMV.

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Post subject: Re: Single Coil Indentifcation? Odd lead colors
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:24 pm
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Martian wrote:
When you say, "for a good price", in today's day and age, this sends a signal to me that these pickups have been tampered with.


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Post subject: Re: Single Coil Indentifcation? Odd lead colors
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:15 pm
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I thought they seemed fishy haha, that's why I posted here looking for assistance. Thanks for the heads up :)


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Post subject: Re: Single Coil Indentifcation? Odd lead colors
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:02 pm
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I thought they seemed fishy haha, that's why I posted here looking for assistance. Thanks for the heads up :)


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