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Permalink Reply by jawbone on October 30, 2013 at 11:46am

Yep - We do -http://www.cigarboxnation.com/group/cbgwiringelectronics 
just put reds together and blacks together and then watch for smoke!!!!

Just kidding about the smoke (sort of)   :-) 

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Permalink Reply by rob bryon on October 30, 2013 at 7:22pm

thanx for your  reply, this wiring thing really does my head in

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Permalink Reply by Henry Strat-o-varius Lowman on October 30, 2013 at 4:37pm

Make sure you ground it properly. :-)

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Permalink Reply by rob bryon on October 30, 2013 at 7:22pm

thanx heaps

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on October 30, 2013 at 6:24pm

the main thing to know is that piezos want to combine in parallel, where they improve each other significantly and not in series, where they'll scream like a matching pair of fish wives

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Permalink Reply by rob bryon on October 30, 2013 at 7:21pm

I kinda know what ya mean, so just joining em(red ta red and black ta black) is good or not....im gonna use the rod piezos...ta

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on October 30, 2013 at 9:43pm

Yep red and red join together and call that hot and black and black join together call that ground, and that's parallel. So the output is pickup one + pickup two.

A series connection would be connecting the red from one of them to hot, the black from the other to ground, then the loose one from each hooked together so signal must pass through both rather than one or the other, think of this as pickup one multiplied by pickup two rather than addition if that makes sense. Don't do this with piezos.

(This is an over-simplification and some would argue that subtraction and division would be better metaphors..)

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Permalink Reply by rob bryon on October 31, 2013 at 9:31am

got it, thanks heaps................

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Permalink Reply by Ted Crocker on October 31, 2013 at 8:25am

For 2 or more piezos just connect the reds together and the blacks together (parallel).  

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Permalink Reply by rob bryon on October 31, 2013 at 9:31am

thanks for that, much appreciated...................................

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