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Old 08-23-2007, 02:53 PM
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I am working on a P/J type bass Has a dual coil pickup at the bridge with 3 wires on it black,yellow and red. The red and yellow became disconnected when I removed the control plate. I can get sound from the Neck P-type pick up but not from the bridge pickup. I replaced the pots and some wiring and i checked everything out with a Multi meter as much as possible and have continuity every where I should. My question is where should those two wires be connected?

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I am working on a P/J type bass Has a dual coil pickup at the bridge with 3 wires on it black,yellow and red. The red and yellow became disconnected when I removed the control plate. I can get sound from the Neck P-type pick up but not from the bridge pickup. I replaced the pots and some wiring and i checked everything out with a Multi meter as much as possible and have continuity every where I should. My question is where should those two wires be connected?

Thanks for your help
Little more info would help but if the pups are a set then just look at the P and the J wires will be wired in accord. Also next time, 90% of the time I can tell where loose wires go just from looking at the ends and using a magnifying glass in good light. That's a more frutiful first step than to start soldering and changing things around where you're just contaminating the crime scene.

Take your meter using x1 and see where the connections are between the each J pup lead - assuming two of them are still free. In all probability the red and yellow are hots for each coil and the black ground so you'd wire in accord with whatever you want.

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I almost feel really bad for the guy who owns that bass! ......He didn't like that too much!!
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Old 08-24-2007, 08:48 AM
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On the net you can find all sorts of diagrams. Perhaps your case is like one of these:
http://www.bartolini.net/instruction...inst_alpha.pdf
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/cat...ringresources/
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Old 08-24-2007, 03:16 PM
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I think the guy that is working on that Bass probably feels really bad about the results. But he will probably make it right.
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I would take your multimeter (you do have a multimeter, don't you?), set it to measure resistance, and test continuity through the red and yellow, red and black, and yellow and black wires. Note the readings you get from all three combinations.

If one gives you a reading > 6kOhms while the other two combinations overload, the one giving you a reading is for the signal and ground wires. The third wire that doesn't give you continuity with the coil is probably a shield ground; wire it to the back of a pot shell or, if your control cavity is shielded, to a bare spot on the copper foil or to the ring terminal that the shield ground is connected to.

In the case that all combinations give you some continuity, the pickup is a tappable humbucker, meaning you can cut out one coil and get a single-coil sound out of the pickup. In that case, black is ground, red is the "single coil" and red is the "phantom coil". If you would like to tap the coils, look for a wiring diagram for a two-pickup bass with coil tap; shouldn't be difficult to find. If you don't want a coil tap, solder both the yellow and red wires to the bridge volume pot (usually to the wiper; look at where the signal hot wire of the P pickup is wired to its volume pot).
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I do have a Multi Meter and when checking continuity found the coils to be open. So either rewind or attempt to find a replacement. And finding a replacement for a Harmony Bass bridge Humbucker is not going to be easy.
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I do have a Multi Meter and when checking continuity found the coils to be open. So either rewind or attempt to find a replacement. And finding a replacement for a Harmony Bass bridge Humbucker is not going to be easy.
By open are you talking infinity reading - as in no resistance?
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As In no Continuity. Can't read through them
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As In no Continuity. Can't read through them
I'd check with Lindy and see what he wants on a rewind. TBr's have said he does rewinds as low as $50.

If you can get to the winding's there's a remote chance you can find a break on the outter winding's, unwrap it a turn and solder it to the contact point.
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Thanks for the unwind suggestion I might try that and if it does not work then I'll try Lindy
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