Post by kessv on Jul 21, 2017 14:49:19 GMT -5
So there I am, playing a show on a chilly February night when a certain solo comes up. I decide to switch to my bridge pickup (SD Invader) and... nothing. I get home and do a complete rewire of my guitar. Everything works fine. Fast forward a few months and the same problem occurs, barely audible sound, but usually slamming the 3-way switch back to the bridge position brought it back. A few weeks ago, I bought a push/pull to use for coil-splitting. Installation was seamless and everything was working fine, then all of the sudden my old foe came back. Barely an audible sound from the Invader. I thought it might've been the 3-way switch, so I ordered a new one. After installing it, nothing changed. I wire everything up, tap the pickups with a screwdriver to hear that faithful loud popping noise from the neck (SD Jazz), but the bridge still has it's faint tap. I used a multimeter on the cable when everything was wired up (plugged one end into the jack and touched the multimeter to the other end). The readings I get would be somewhere in the 140-190 range. The 1 is always there when testing, but the other numbers would pop up for a brief second, then dissappear. Splitting the coil changed nothing. When I desoldered the pickup and used the multimeter on in alone, I got a reading of 16. The neck pickup had no problems when being tested from the cord.
I'm really worried that the Invader has gone kaput. Here's the schematic I used. Everything is wired up exactly as shown:
Here's a video showing my problem:
And here's some images showing my wiring, not that it's any help.
I appreciate and thank you for any feedback
I'm really worried that the Invader has gone kaput. Here's the schematic I used. Everything is wired up exactly as shown:
Here's a video showing my problem:
And here's some images showing my wiring, not that it's any help.
I appreciate and thank you for any feedback
