Post by antigua on Mar 13, 2020 22:13:47 GMT -5
This is a $65 USD set that is meant to match a Seymour Duncan JB/Jazz set, which has been an OEM set for decades and serves as a standard. At $65, it's less than half the cost of the a JB/Jazz at the present time.
From a parts standpoint, it's high quality. The magnet is AlNiCo 5 base plate is nickel silver, the spacer is made of wood. The legs are about medium lengthed. The tape is a nice cloth style tape.
Electrically, the Eruption bridge is nearly identical to a JB. I measured an inductance of 8.059H for the JB, and 8.064 for the Eruption. The loaded resonant peak of each is right around 2.0kHz. The Eruption has slightly less capacitance, but it's completely trivial.
The neck pickup has a slightly higher inductance than a Jazz neck pickup, 4.4 henries compared to 3.9 henries, and the loaded resonant peak is 170Hz lower. Both are in the range that is often designated as being slightly underwound PAF.
The gauss strength at the screw tops was a little lower, hovering around 300G, instead of 350G. If the screws are clipped shorter, the field strength increases by about 50 gauss.
BYO Eruption Hunbucker Set
Bridge
- DC Resistance: 16.27K ohms
- Measured L: 8.064H
- Calculated C: 97.34pF
- Gauss: 300G
Neck
- DC Resistance: 7.68K ohms
- Measured L: 4.391H
- Calculated C: 88.42pF
- Gauss: 300G
Bridge unloaded: dV: 7.0dB f: 5.67kHz (black)
Bridge loaded (200k & 470pF): dV: 1.0dB f: 2.00kHz (blue)
Br Split unloaded: dV: 7.4dB f: 5.80kHz (red)
Br Split loaded (200k & 470pF): dV: 4.4dB f: 3.36kHz (green)
Neck unloaded: dV: 8.0dB f: 8.55kHz (black)
Neck loaded (200k & 470pF): dV: 2.6dB f: 3.00kHz (blue)
Nk Split unloaded: dV: 9.4dB f: 10.7kHz (red)
Nk Split loaded (200k & 470pF): dV: 5.2dB f: 4.73kHz (green)
