Strange sounding Bridge Hum

[straycat]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

Try resoldering them and let us know if that fixes the problem.

[plon]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

The same thing was happening with my Jackson dinky (low output). It turned out to be a break in the wire where the pickup lead was bent to fit the cavity.

[Immortal]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

Originally posted by ZeNo:
it's a righty indeed, whats strange about the direction of the wires? [img]graemlins/brow.gif[/img]
i noticed the ground wires of the hum almost seem to come loose, can this cause the lack of output? i'll try to solder it again

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nothing's wrong with them. Perhaps delt didn't take a more detailed look.
Desolder them, wipe that solder down and make a clean and nice one on the case of the volume pot. That's what I would do.
Before you make a new solder there, take your stanley or razor blade and scratch that grey surface down a bit, so you'll get better grip for solder and better surface for signal.

[vwall]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

Have you guys tried my advice?
You really should...

[Boxcar Willie 84]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

Just to interject, when I got my 85 Rhoads Custom, I had the same problem, and the bridge pickup in it was indeed broken, so that is a very real possibility.

[delt]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

i have a seymour duncan full shred, and it's defective.... one of the coils gives an extremely low, hardly audible output. tested this by connecting the pickup directly to my gt-3 and holding a tuning fork next to the coils.

i took it apart and checked the impedances directly at the coil leads, one of them gives its regular 7 Kohms, the other one (the one that gives no output) measures around 1500K.

can't see anything else than a broken coil....... =(

[ZeNo]

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i called the local tech today....and it takes them up to two weeks [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] so i guess i'll take a look myself first, thanks for all your replies, i'll try some of the options

[ejpii]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

Seymour Duncan has schematics on thier web site. Duncan Website

[ejpii]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

[ZeNo]

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thanks...now ive first gotto get me some good soldering gear, since the one i have now is 10 watt or something and takes for ever to warm up and to melt something..
what do you guys recommend?

[jackson1]

Re: Strange sounding Bridge Hum

Weller.

/Henrik