ModLad69 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Hello Wal heads, Can anyone here tell me what the D.C. resistance (output) is on a Wal pickup? Is the output any different between the 4 and 5 string Wal pickup? Your help is much appreciated, mates! Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikay Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 (edited) Don't know but Wal pickups have a different construction to regular humbuckers - bit more info here (bottom part of page): [url="http://walbassist.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/wal-bass-preamp-theres-no-big-mystery.html"]http://walbassist.bl...ig-mystery.html[/url] This thread here talks about Wal pickup resistance (starts halfway down first page) and how the muiltiple coil construction makes it difficult to compare them directly with other pickups. [url="http://music-electronics-forum.com/t28235/"]http://music-electronics-forum.com/t28235/[/url] Edited August 6, 2013 by ikay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModLad69 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 Thanks for this info, ikay. Neither link stated the d.c. resistance (output) of Wal pups though. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 (edited) They can't be measured the same way a standard pickup is because of their construction (coil per polepiece). As a matter of interest, why do you need this info? Edited August 7, 2013 by Bigwan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikay Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 (edited) [quote name='ModLad69' timestamp='1375849710' post='2166406'] Neither link stated the d.c. resistance (output) of Wal pups though. [/quote] It says this about resistance in the second link - "[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif][size=3]Each coil has 10,000 turns of 42, and reads about 2.5k. On the model I have here, there are eight coils, with each row of four in series. So each row is 10k." So total DC resistance in this example is 20k. [/size][/font][/color] Edited August 7, 2013 by ikay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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