Matt300ZXT
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Are the bare wires supposed to have continuity with the pickup body? Also, is it ok in a dual humbucker guitar, if those 2 bare wires touch each other while running through the holes towards the control cavity?
The reason I ask is that I'm finishing up this Warrior re-wire where I took the Duncans with shoddy original wiring out and put in DiMarzios. I had to strip back most of the black rubber shielding so I could run 1 wire from each pickup towards the toggle switch cavity, and so that the pickups would actually sit down in their routes. I have all the wires run where they need to go but haven't trimmed any or made any terminations yet, but I wanted to do a test beforehand. I put my meter's probes on both of the bare wires and would get a beep depending on how I was holding the wires, so they're occasionally making contact when coming through the wiring hole from the bridge route towards the cavity. Then I put a probe on each wire and was getting continuity with the pickup mounting screw. If those bare wires are supposed to have continuity with the pickup, and it doesn't matter if they both touch, then I can move forward.
The reason I ask, if a little over a year ago, I had a luthier back in Maine do a fret job and he had to remove the neck pickup to have clear access to higher frets. He put it back in and it worked for a day or two, then no more output. Eventually, when I came home to visit, I had a local luthier friend look at it and he determined, that, due to shoddy original wiring and soldering connections, a wire from the switch, I think it was, was making contact with the neck pickup or a wire coming from it and killing the signal. He did some shielding with electrical tape on one of the wires and that fixed the problem.
There are 2 wires coming from the switch down towards the control cavity, one for hot and one for ground, and they are still insulated so I shouldn't have that problem again, I just want to double check before I move forward.
The reason I ask is that I'm finishing up this Warrior re-wire where I took the Duncans with shoddy original wiring out and put in DiMarzios. I had to strip back most of the black rubber shielding so I could run 1 wire from each pickup towards the toggle switch cavity, and so that the pickups would actually sit down in their routes. I have all the wires run where they need to go but haven't trimmed any or made any terminations yet, but I wanted to do a test beforehand. I put my meter's probes on both of the bare wires and would get a beep depending on how I was holding the wires, so they're occasionally making contact when coming through the wiring hole from the bridge route towards the cavity. Then I put a probe on each wire and was getting continuity with the pickup mounting screw. If those bare wires are supposed to have continuity with the pickup, and it doesn't matter if they both touch, then I can move forward.
The reason I ask, if a little over a year ago, I had a luthier back in Maine do a fret job and he had to remove the neck pickup to have clear access to higher frets. He put it back in and it worked for a day or two, then no more output. Eventually, when I came home to visit, I had a local luthier friend look at it and he determined, that, due to shoddy original wiring and soldering connections, a wire from the switch, I think it was, was making contact with the neck pickup or a wire coming from it and killing the signal. He did some shielding with electrical tape on one of the wires and that fixed the problem.
There are 2 wires coming from the switch down towards the control cavity, one for hot and one for ground, and they are still insulated so I shouldn't have that problem again, I just want to double check before I move forward.
