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I just installed a surf90 neck works fine.and a mean90 bridge you can barely hear anything coming out of it, I checked for cold.solder joints.none.and covered it in heat shrink, could it be the wiring I've done? At first I tinned the ground and shield together then I tried it without connecting the the two together, could it be that wire connecting the bridge to the pickup selector is bad? Please help me im running out of options excepr taking it to Guitar Center which is a last resort. My guitar is like a telecaster one volume one tone.
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My guitar is a Scheter C1 EA ot used to hae Seymour Duncan HB-102s. -
Do you have a multimeter? If so disconnect the pickup from the switch and set the meter to ohms and touch one probe to the pickups hot lead and another to the ground lead. What does it say? Humbuckers should read in the 5k-20k ohm range. If you get a reading in this range your pickup is probably ok and your wiring/soldering is the problem. A reading of 0 ohms (dead short) or no continuity (open coil) means you likely have a bad pickup.
While your pickup is unhooked plug the guitar into your amp and touch a screwdriver to the terminal of the switch that the pickup would be hooked up to. Do you get a buzzing sound through the amp? If not your problem is somewhere in the guitars wiring.
Good luck!
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Check that when you tinned the shield it didn't melt the insulation to the center conductor and short it out.Originally posted by mintyhippo View PostIt would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. — Albert Einstein
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