famous beagle
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Hey y'all. I just bought a set of Fender Tex Mex pickups and haven't installed them yet. I was checking them with the multimeter just to make sure I was getting a reasonable resistance reading before I bothered with installation.
Two of them tested fine: one was 6.5k or so and the other was 7.3k or so. But on the third, I wasn't able to get a solid reading. It was showing around the 2Mohm range at first and was gradually (slowly) falling. It would never lock on though and is always showing WAY more resistance than expected.
I tried the cable and amp trick (touched one of the wires to the tip of a plugged in cable and the other to the sleeve and then tapped the pickup with a screwdriver), and it seemed to be working fine.
I was just wondering what could be causing the wacky reading?
I'm fairly certain it's not my equipment (meter) or method (i.e., touching the wires with my fingers while measuring) that's at fault here, as I did the measurements (of all the pickups) several times and got the same results.
Anyone have a clue?
Thanks
Two of them tested fine: one was 6.5k or so and the other was 7.3k or so. But on the third, I wasn't able to get a solid reading. It was showing around the 2Mohm range at first and was gradually (slowly) falling. It would never lock on though and is always showing WAY more resistance than expected.
I tried the cable and amp trick (touched one of the wires to the tip of a plugged in cable and the other to the sleeve and then tapped the pickup with a screwdriver), and it seemed to be working fine.
I was just wondering what could be causing the wacky reading?
I'm fairly certain it's not my equipment (meter) or method (i.e., touching the wires with my fingers while measuring) that's at fault here, as I did the measurements (of all the pickups) several times and got the same results.
Anyone have a clue?
Thanks