RMacd1

Yeah its a good point but as I won't want to plug it in else where I am not so worried about that its more that i don't want to route the guitar body which is more important to me. That's a good idea too to have the box mounted on the strap the box could be pretty small then

I have a Fender Aerodyne Jazz (Japan model) with set of EMG PJX pick up's and with having had EMG active pick up's before i knew that i wanted 18v but i also did not want to go down the route of trying to fit the two batterys into the cavity already there (which i dont think you can or if you can would be pretty crammed) so i decided to try an idea i thought of (its probably been done but it will have gone straight past me!) which was to fit the two batterys inside a box thats mounted to the side of my amp (as i first attempt i took the cheap option wiith everything) so that i could power the pick up's with 18v with out butchering the guitar to make them fit aswell as being much less hassle to change the batterys in the future, so instead of having the normal cable and jack to the guitar i have a DIN 8 pin socket on the guitar, matching DIN 8 pin plug on the cable (the cable i used is shielded with 3 twisted pairs) which goes into a box (metal) mounted to the side of my amp with a regular jack on it then into the amp, you will see in the pictures that the box looks pretty rough which it is as this was just a try out i did today also the control place is an old non fender part i was happy to drill. when i tried it on there was no hum or interference or any unwanted effects of having power and signal in one cable. Not likely to be a great idea to everyone but it works well for me and also means i dont have a slightly less valuable guitar on my hands! [attachment=124053:P1050362.JPG] [attachment=124052:P1050360.JPG] [attachment=124054:P1050363.JPG]