I just wired some SB1 pickups straight to the output jack. I'm wondering what will happen if the green/white (they get soldered together, as shown in official G&L diagram) wire ends touch something?
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G&L SB1 Pickup Concern
- Thread starter Bassdoggydogg
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Most likely thing to touch is probably shielding. If that happens, they will just ground out and you will have no signal output. If you are concerned about them touching something, then cover them up (electrical tape or shrink tubing). If they touch something that is non-conductive (like wood from the bass body), then nothing will happen.
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Just shrink-wrap them. It'll take like 30 seconds and if done carefully will last forever (until you want to remove it)! I guess finding the electrical shrink wrap will be the most annoying part with the death of Radio Shack (I hate to recommend Amazon, but they've left many of us little choice for things like this). Electrical tape is an alright temporary solution, much better than nothing.
If the bare green/white connection touches ground, half of your pickup will go mute.
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The green and white are wired together to get series. All signal will drop out if they ground (not half).
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No, because one side of one of the two coils is going directly to the output- grounding the series connection will single that coil out (one end to output, the other to ground).
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Yep. I was thinking about the diagram wrong. You are still shorting both sections of pickup to ground, but on one of them you still get signal that way (it needs to go to ground to get signal, but you end up doing it through shielding instead of through the intended route; either way = signal, should be lower signal from running just that half due to losing series from the dropout on the other half).
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