You can with a can! Played with a knife and a wooden spoon
1)Central hole in can bottom
2) screw with insulation tape around it to hold it in place (must be isolated from can )
3)Ni magnet on top of screw
3)Drill 2 holes in side of base
4) fit 2 screws with washers and nuts
5)2.5mm copper link wire through the centre of the tranfomer
6)solder on connection to two terminals on 1:500 transformer. (AS 104)
7) connect to pre-amp or drive pedal before amp or turn up amp loud.
easy!
It's so crazy it actually works...
It's a new age,
The revolution is here!
Throw away hard to make wound pickups!
The Inductance pick up has arrived...it's so simple it's crazy...
Other tested solutions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39SEHKdjidc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72PNTK0qKHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWocISrbf0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5KtZDdQCuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8siIuCGPTuQ
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/inductance-pickup-prototype-no-five
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/lace-alumitone-how-is-it-done?xg_source=activity&id=2592684%3ATopic%3A2593735&page=64#comments
In 2012 I tried to crack this and failed ending up inventing the Bug vibro coil, but re inspired recently by Wayfinders Blog...
...we're onto it!
Tonally awesome, no noise, so simple to build, and totally unlimited to what you can build around the concept...
Inductance the two loops system!
Now get back up off the floor lol
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LOL, meant magnets...
Thanks for the reply. I think I am grokking the concept for the most part. I just have no desire to buy transformers when I have so many old wall warts lying around. The next preferred option past that is winding my own, but that might be a bit adventurous currently.
What batteries do you use on this? Not sure where to source them. A link would be great.
Thanks again,
The Bane
the current flows through the easiest path, the can has a hole so it loops around the magnet the trick is the currrent flows through the core of the wound transformer loop 1 then the coil, loop 2 amplified it basically its a transfomer. If you look back to my bedwarmer CBG I had this working but never under stood why it worked as the magnets were on the telephone coil transformer core
The magnet is isolated with selotape, very important or it shorts and the loop one fails!
copper solid bar 5mm through the transformer coil is best, 1:500-:1:1000 the smaller needs pre-amp
so 1:750 may be a good shout.. also see my eddy currents video...for why it works
Love this! Sounds great and aesthetically pleasing. I am currently nugging my way through the "Lace Alumitone-- How is it done?" discussion (on page 70ish). Really enjoying the discussion, experimentation and discovery!
The question I have, will the 'can bottom' pickup work with a conventional hand wound transformer?
Best,
The Bane
Cheers bug
Thanks guys... this now makes pickup making just so very simple...
Its easy drill 1 holes in a can bottom, two in the sides and two screws and nut and bolt a strap of copper wire through the transformer core and fit an Ni magnet isolated from the can centre by clear tape or something (mine sits on an screw with isolation tape around it) ... job done.. 5-10 mins!
As104 transformer seems the way to go 1:500 or above (but you loose some quality with 1:1000)
simpler than eating cake..
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