determining a bad pickup

[jhollon]

i have an older hotrails humbucking pickup that i haven't tried in a while, i tried it the other day and got no response from it although i know it is hooked up correctly. I think it has been abused in the past but i can't see any cut wires. I would like to make it work again. can somebody give me some pointers on determining what is wrong. things like hooking it up to a volt meter (specific wires to test and settings on the meter) to see if it is working or to see if there is something wrong.

thanks,

Jeff

[UnklMickey]

hi Jeff,


if it is the neck model, you should have something like 5400 ohms* of resistance between black and white. the same between red and green.

there should be no continuity between the frame of the pickup and any of the wires mentioned above.

* if it is the bridge model, make that about 8450 ohms.


unk