Is this an EB pickup?

[word]

Hey everyone, I've got this pickup that I thought came off a 90's stingray

I was looking at Gavin's website but I didn't find any pickups with red and grey wiring. It measures 3.71k ohms if I'm testing it right! Doesn't have the black winding tape.

Thanks!

 

[bdgotoh]

I have an original MM pickup that looks exactly like that but the wire colors are red/orange and very light green, no black tape around the coils. The coil wire is bright orange/copper colored. That looks like a stock pickup to me but the ohms resistance shouldn't be that high, you probably have a dead coil.

 

[word]

Is there an easy way to check for a bad coil?

 

[Jim C]

Measure the resistance at the orange and light green solder connections and then compare to the measurement at the black and white wires

 

[word]

I tried that but it gives me the same reading as the leads. Do I have to unsolder the coils to test each one individually?

 

[bdgotoh]

It's wired in parallel so that won't work. Disconnect either the orange or gray wire and then measure each coil. You only have to disconnect one wire to separate the coils.

 

[Jim C]

Oops. my bad
what he said

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Looks genuine to me.

 

[word]

Dang, each of my pickups has a bad coil.

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Is your meter calibrated correctly before taking readings? Highly unlikely to have two pups like that.

 

[Jim C]

Is your meter calibrated correctly before taking readings? Highly unlikely to have two pups like that.

Normaly this would be true, but since I wanted to buy a working, stock pick up this is way more likely.

Am in the middle of a divorce settlement (go figure, after 20 years it comes unglued) and cash is tight; thought I'd graft a SR pup into a parts bass for cheap entertainment; no daggers please.

 

[word]

Normaly this would be true, but since I wanted to buy a working, stock pick up this is way more likely.

Am in the middle of a divorce settlement (go figure, after 20 years it comes unglued) and cash is tight; thought I'd graft a SR pup into a parts bass for cheap entertainment; no daggers please.

I could take the working coil from each pickup to make you one working one

 

[word]

Is your meter calibrated correctly before taking readings? Highly unlikely to have two pups like that.

Yeah, I am just good enough with the darn thing to determine which coil is working and which isn't. Sigh.