JP6 pickup wiring...

[adamrogo]

The neck pickup in my guitar has never worked properly ever since I've bought it. It ramdomly works, but most of the time, only slight fuzz comes through when playing.

I resoldered all the 5 wires back onto the PCB switch, and it worked for a few hours, then just stopped again.

I got too much solder onto the pcb, and accidentally soldered the W and B pads together on the neck side, then tried to scratch in between to take a little away. Did i cut a circuit in doing so? Where is the W lead supposed to connect to, it looks like it leads to nothing on the board.

Any explantartion as to why the pickup doesn't work?

-Adam

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

Maybe the toggle itself is faulty? If your connections on the board are good, and the wires are good, then I would make sure to replace the switch.

 

[jongitarz]

Yep, that would have been the first place to look. Did you buy it new? If so, you should have called customer service.

 

[adamrogo]

I did buy it new, and I took it in for repair, but they couldn't find the problem.

I took out the pickup, took off the white shrink wrap, examined the 5 leads, the re-shrinked the leads and soldered back onto the PCB. So far everything is working great, so we'll soon see if this did the trick.

 

[eliot323]

Definitely the switch is the most likely culprit. Check the whole lot of the wiring whilst you're at it using a digital multimeter on continuity testing setting. It saves a lot of hassle...

 

[jeffrey]

Sounds like the switch to me too.