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Recently sock puppet came up with a little electronic circuit to help him determine humbucker coil polarities...
http://music-electronics-forum.com/t41670/#post416896
... and I thought that this might be a good opportunity to come up with a project that can speed up and simplify this process as much as possible.
Here's a list of the things I'd like this gismo to do:
Show the polarities of two or even 4 coils at once.
Have an integrated magnetic polarity tester to show north or south up.
Polarities would be displayed via different colored LEDs, say red for north-up, blue for south up, green for clockwise, yellow for ccw.
Have an integrated signal generator/inducer wand that pings each coil so we don't have to be clanking sharp chisels over valuable guitars.
Getting to the super fancy functions:
Perhaps a little 160 char display that could show a pictorial diagram of each coil with mag polarity and wind direction arrows.
An on-board memory that would show us the wire color codes for all the pickup brands so we don't have to keep looking that shit up.
I'm interested in other ideas and curious what the interest would be generally.
Would you rather buy a finished product, build a complete kit or DIY the whole thing from a set of plans, a BOM and a PCB etch pdf?
What would you consider spending on such a gadget; $20-40-60-80?
http://music-electronics-forum.com/t41670/#post416896
... and I thought that this might be a good opportunity to come up with a project that can speed up and simplify this process as much as possible.
Here's a list of the things I'd like this gismo to do:
Show the polarities of two or even 4 coils at once.
Have an integrated magnetic polarity tester to show north or south up.
Polarities would be displayed via different colored LEDs, say red for north-up, blue for south up, green for clockwise, yellow for ccw.
Have an integrated signal generator/inducer wand that pings each coil so we don't have to be clanking sharp chisels over valuable guitars.
Getting to the super fancy functions:
Perhaps a little 160 char display that could show a pictorial diagram of each coil with mag polarity and wind direction arrows.
An on-board memory that would show us the wire color codes for all the pickup brands so we don't have to keep looking that shit up.
I'm interested in other ideas and curious what the interest would be generally.
Would you rather buy a finished product, build a complete kit or DIY the whole thing from a set of plans, a BOM and a PCB etch pdf?
What would you consider spending on such a gadget; $20-40-60-80?
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