Measuring Pickup DC-R

[Craig]

[From a post on the G&LDP No need to remove or dissassemble anything...
by GPD on April 08, 2008 in response to post
Re: This can be a little confusing... posted by MrRoundel on April 08, 2008]

Take any instrument cable and plug it into the output jack of your ASAT Tres...
Grab your closest digital multi-meter and turn it to resistance (ohms). Put the "+" lead on the tip of the
exposed jack end and the "-" lead on the sleeve. Make sure you have both pots wide open. When the
5-way is in the neck position...the ohmmeter will read the DC-R of the neck pickup, and as you move
through the switch settings you'll be able to read each pickups DC-R along with the parallel
connections which will be about 1/2 the resistance of what the individual pickups are.

The pickups will vary from position to position...remember...these bastards were hand wound. I'd say
the DC-R's are in the 3.9K to 4.2K range...which is Skyhawk territory. If all three are in the 4.3K to 4.5K
range...you've got yourself the S-500 spec.

I love the sound of those Northwestern (soft) maple bodied old G&L's. I'm not a Tele body guy but I
really do like the sound of those old maple bodied B-Casters, ASAT's and ASAT III's.

Hope this helps,


Gabe