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

[Toby Graves <carpet8@mac.com>]

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.


toby


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)
>