Last week I was helping others with there wiring problems now I seem to have a problem with mine !!
Soldered every thing up , plugged it in , turned up the volume and what a noise sounds like I've no grounds , touch any metal part and it stops , turn to full volume and all is quiet touch any metal part no noise all grounds are perfect , turn back to 3/4 volume , no grounds !! , put multi-meter on jack plug ground and tried all the grounds it reads 0.00 , only part that doesn't read 0.00 is where cap is soldered to tone pot lug it read 0.17 ? , made up a test lead plugged in to amp on 3/4 volume did the same clipped one end to jack ground and tried all the grounds again pots , string ground plate , strings , tuners , nothing changed still have to touch metal parts to stop it , all parts used are top grade full size pots and orange caps .
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Here's a pic of the wiring
UPDATE
I hooked up the multi-meter to hot and ground lugs of the jack plug , volume off I got reading of 0.00 which is normal , started open volume got no reading , volume fully open got a reading of 0.20 ??? , shouldn't that be the output of the pickup which is 6.8k ??? .
I've checked and double checked and triple checked resoldered and checked then resoldered another ground and checked , resoldered all the grounds together as you said , no change
I've been emailing the company I use all day , I've had one bad pot and they said it's only one in a thousand that is bad , ye right !!! , I keep asking buy I was only getting a 0.20k reading when I tested using the jack plug , no answer was the reply , so I've taken all the wiring apart and tested the pickup and what do you think the reading was ? 0.20k !!!! it was 6.8k when I bought because I tested it , so i'm not very happy stiff email to the company followed by return of all the stuff I bought .
If you havn't got a bad ground wire you probably have a bad pot. Shiz happens. Figure out which and replace it.
Your exactly right , I didn't get a wiring diagram with this pickup , so I used a Seymour Duncan diagram and wired it , green and bare is ground , black hot , red and white taped together ,if I hadn't of shortened the lead I would have been ok as the bare wire wasn't visible it's only when I shortened the lead I saw the bare wire when I emailed the company I use they said there pickups have to be wired different, green is live , black and bare are ground and so on , so as you say the bare wire was shorting the pickup out , rewired it all again yesterday also changed the tone pot and cap , but there's still a bit of that same noise there , ok at 1/4 volume and from there to 3/4 volume it comes back as though there's still short somewhere and at full volume it's gone , weird
I understand what your saying , but the most annoying thing about this is I emailed the same pic as I posted on here to the guy and he never spotted it , it's quite clear in the pic which way I've wired it , if he'd have picked it up all I had to do has snip that bare wire from the green and I wouldn't have spent two days resoldering every thing twice , oh well lesson learnt and thanks for the advice .
good work jeff
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