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Originally Posted by king casey
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You obviously know me well, but unfortunately that’s not the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by king casey
All looks good, so I'd suspect the pickup wiring connections. Are you sure you've got the right wire colours connected? Are the two inter coli connection wires correctly joined together? DC ohms reading across the input tab and pot back of the volume pot?
And amp not on standby (happened to me, just like the volume pot situation - amp and guitar)?
Which one is the input tab, Simon? I got the wiring diagram from tone rider themselves.
I’m guessing it’s nothing to do with the Earth (Black) wires, which only leaves the red pickup wire (green and bare show continuity to the back of the pickup, red does not). Output to pot shows continuity (from memory, it’s cold outside and I’m not going back out to double check). Strange, I thought the red pickup wire and white wire to the capacitor was one of my better joins.
The one on the left in the picture with the pickup wire and the lead off to the capacitor/tone control is the input. The middle tab is the signal output.
OK, so the wiring colours should be fine, which means that either the red wire's connection to the input tab of the pot isn't making and is hidden under the heat shrink, or one of the coils is open circuit. I've soldered two bits of wire into one hole before, only to discover that only one wire was properly soldered, the other was left suspended in mid-air, not touching anything and the solder had missed it.
The bare wire of the green and bare pair is connected to the back of the pickup, which is why it's connected to ground to help act as a shield. The fact that one end of the pickup also needs to be connected to ground to make a signal path is the reason they are twisted together and connected to the back of the volume pot. On its own, the green wire just connects to one end of one of the humbucker coil and won't touch the back plate of the pickup at all.
It's hard to see in that photo, but it looks to me like you have the cap in series with the signal lead onto Lug 3 of the tone pot, and lugs 3 & 2 are bridged. (See attached diagram for lug reference)
I'd remove the cap from there and solder one leg of it to the middle lug 2 (tone pot) and the other leg to the back of the pot. Then solder the signal wire (white) to the lug 3 of the tone pot. Lug 1 won't be connected to anything.
This how the Tonerider diagram shows it and how I would do it for a 1 HB/1v/1t set up.
Attachment 37063
I’ve just double checked the wiring against my travel guitar and it is the same, the only difference being that pickup only had the two wires-bare and insulated. The diagram tone rider emailed to me a while back when they didn’t have this combination on their site. They did say my timing was good as they were just in the process of creating the diagrams, perhaps they have changed the diagram since then. Anyhow, the travel guitar does work.
Resoldering pickup wires hasn’t worked, maybe I should ditch the parts and start over fresh. Btw should there be continuity from the red wire to the back of the pickup (I don’t get any) like I get from the bare wire to the back of the pickup?
The cap is from the 2 lug of tone to 3 lug of volume along with the red pickup wire.
3 lug on tone just has some shrink wrap.
Here is a repost of the wiring diagram which may be easier to see.
Ok, thanks McCreed, I’ve got the latest diagram. Similar but different. Looks easier to me so I’ll give it a go next time..