Re: OT: question about how to connect active guitar pickups with batteries

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

These are the 18 volt active Bill Lawerence (neck + vintage bridge
model, I guess). If you're saying so they must have such a circuit
board built into the pick-ups. But what I'm asking is if someone
happens to have experience with these particular pick-ups? If not I
will have to start experimenting with batteries and pickups while
connected to the amp to hear in what configuration they make sound.

They have a very good sound BTW. I played with them yesterday, but
then I disconnected the guitar's electronics because I'm such a
disaster with the soldering gear so the switch (or whatever it was)
made crackling noises that destroyed the "glass distinct" string
attack of those pickups.

per



On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Toby Graves <carpet8@mac.com> wrote:
> I think the battery will connect to a circuit board, not directly to
>  the pickup wires.  Unless there's an actual circuit in the pickup
>  that amplifies.
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>  toby
>
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>  On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:11 AM, Per Boysen wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I have two awesome Bill Lawrence active guitar pickups that I bought
>  > in -88, and if course I can't find the paper manual to check out how I
>  > shall connect them. I think they are humbuckers in a technical sense
>  > but they fit into strat type single coil pickup holes. Anyway, the
>  > difficult point is that these things need two 9 v batteries in order
>  > to function and I'm just wondering if anyone knows right off the top
>  > of your head where the plus vs minus pole of the pickups respective
>  > both batteries should go? The toggle switch just makes too much noise
>  > so I'm thinking about throwing it away and hard-solder the pickups
>  > into the parallel position. A minute ago I was getting busy with this
>  > but found that at least one of the batteries always gets almost as
>  > warm as my soldering iron...
>  >
>  > --
>  > Greetings from Sweden
>  >
>  > Per Boysen
>  > www.boysen.se (Swedish)
>  > www.looproom.com (international)
>  >
>
>



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Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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