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What to do with a "shield" ground on a 3 wire pickup?

Discussion in 'Pickups & Electronics [BG]' started by Diesel Kilgore, Dec 10, 2017.

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  1. Dec 10, 2017 #1
    Diesel Kilgore

    Diesel Kilgore

    Jun 30, 2012
    San Joaquin, CA
    I've got a 3 wire single coil pickup. Hot, ground and then a "shield" ground.

    What do I do with that shield ground? Connect it to all other grounds like the regular pickup ground wire? Or do I need to do something special with it?
     
  2. Dec 11, 2017 #2
    line6man

    line6man

    Jun 20, 2008
    Close to Los Angeles, CA
    You are supposed to ground it. The reason you have a seperate shield ground is to allow the flexibility of doing things like series/parallel switching or phase inversion. If you won't be doing anything exotic, then the coil ground and shield ground will be connected together.
     
  3. Dec 11, 2017 #3
    Diesel Kilgore

    Diesel Kilgore

    Jun 30, 2012
    San Joaquin, CA
    Awesome. Thank you.