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[David King]

Sure but why not have a simple latching circuit that registers the brief + or - and lights a red or blue LED accordingly? I don't know enough about electronics to know what that circuit would be called but I'm sure it already exists somewhere.

[RedHouse]

It's actually easy. Use a piece of soft iron in hand. Lay it against the pole in question, and quickly pull the iron piece away from the pickup, while observing the polarity of the voltage from the pickup.

That's the manual method Joe, I think David's idea was to have a Phase & Gauss reading in one meter, more like the EGM (Elepro gauss meter) thing.

(yeah, let's attach an acronym to Elepro's meter, I'm of the opinion EGM works well, anyone else?)

[Rick Turner]

Joe, that's the method to which David was referring in the first place. But it takes an analog meter to do it.

[Joe Gwinn]

Joe, that's the method to which David was referring in the first place. But it takes an analog meter to do it.

Well, a fast enough digital meter will do as well.

[Joe Gwinn]

Or in diagramatic form...

http://www.sustainiac.com/polarity.pdf

Bingo! This test the net result of magnet polarity and winding direction.

[santellan]

If you do set up a standard set of pinouts then I could make a compatable version of this wiring kit by replacing the terminal block with 5 pin right angle pins. All of the connectors and terminal blocks are currently gold plated. I would also do this for the whole Toneshaper product line.