Need some EMG help

[Luafcm]

Luafcm I tried that cardvoard thing once a while back and yeah it worked great except i had the pots in the wrong places when i tried to put it into the guitar. LOL i love being dyslexic sometimes; it amuses me.
Gil

LOL! Can you see in my pic where I labeled the pots on the piece of cardboard? Yea, that's chalked up to experience, I take all my courses at the school of hard knocks.

[JACKSONFREAK]

Ok update time. Well i disconnected the jumpers and for som eunknown reason things started to work correctly. However now i get a bad ground hum. This is probably due to the pickup grounds not being grounded. If i do ground the pups they dont work. Do i have the ground and hot wires switched on the jack? Im so confused. I hate EMG's now i remember why.
Thanks for the help so far guys.
Gil

[Sunbane]

Ummmm...with the pickup grounds not being connected, you wouldn't be able to get any sound out of them at all, since the circuit wouldn't be closed.

[Rich#6]

Do i have the ground and hot wires switched on the jack? Im so confused. I hate EMG's now i remember why.

that's possible, I did that the other day with passive pickups fixing an old epiphone strat.

[JACKSONFREAK]

Ummmm...with the pickup grounds not being connected, you wouldn't be able to get any sound out of them at all, since the circuit wouldn't be closed.

Thats what i thought too. But the pups are not grounded to anything but are still working. WHen i ground them the pups dont work. Also theres a hum when they arent grounded.
I now have this guitar at home (per agreement of all involved)as my boss was tired of me workin on it. So I have to get this fixed asap. The Clips on the pups are also installed correctly. According to the diagram) Im at a loss and EMG is no help.
Gil

[Rich#6]

Thats what i thought too. But the pups are not grounded to anything but are still working. WHen i ground them the pups dont work. Also theres a hum when they arent grounded.
I now have this guitar at home (per agreement of all involved)as my boss was tired of me workin on it. So I have to get this fixed asap. The Clips on the pups are also installed correctly. According to the diagram) Im at a loss and EMG is no help.
Gil

You don't have the white wires going from the back of the pot to the switch? Take some pictures.

[JACKSONFREAK]

Well i got it working. I contacted EMG and they sent me the proper 5way switch oth the PC board on it. And new harnesses for the pups. So after replacing a bad kill switch and a bad jack. It works perfectly. But now i have another emg dilemma. Three hums in a strat.
With the AB and a PI2. Plusindividual on off switches for each pup. Phase is to go to the middle pup only. and the Ab to all three. It no worky like i thought it should be wired. Controls dont work but the AB does.
I hate emgs'
Gil

[86barettaguy]

I'd love to see pictures of the installation in that striker if you have any. I was sort of set on using EMGs in my striker but haven't figured out where to put the battery and how to deal with possibly having to mix new solder-less with older soldered pickups...

[86barettaguy]

and another problem with old pre-solderless EMG pickups in a kramer striker: the wires coming out the bottom of the pickup seems to push against the bottom of the pickup cavity. Seems like such a dumb problem, but the only solution I can think of is adding a clearance cut to the cavity corner, right below where the wires come out of the pickup?

[Amerturk]

Don't forget you can buy a battery clip for about a buck from radio shack.