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I did a bad thing and let the smoke out of a couple of LiveWires (They don't seem to work now)

Are they repairable items if I send them to the factory?

Thank you!

Trevor

ive seen smoke from lots of places, a pup isnt one of them.

tell us the story

A gentle bump for Evan now that the weekend is over...

I'll tell the story when I get home from work this evening.

lol hook em up to the mains?

do you get any signal out of them at all? might as well give evan something to read, y'know?

which kind of livewires are they, also? there's a few on ebay UK at the moment, going quite cheap!

tom

LiveWires are really hard to repair because they're epoxy encapsulated. If you did something that actually fried the circuitry, then just give 'em a proper burial and start your mourning period.

Sorry for your loss...


Originally Posted by Implol hook em up to the mains?

u mean the 240V mod?



how much headroom would you have then?! it'd be like having passives!

So, I guess I'm out a Metal and a Classic... Thanks for your respose Evan...

Here's what happened... I won the Metal and a classic HSS set on Ebay for about $70 for all of them. When they finally arrived, I took my Tele apart (It's generally my test mule) and mounted the two humbuckers and connected them to 2 100K pots (all schematics are from the SD Site...) then I connected them to an EMG output jack with the battery clip and strung up 3 clips to make an 18 volt adapter harness, connected the batteries and checked the voltage prior to connecting it to the clip on the jack, voltage was good so I plugged it in and tucked the wiring into the control cavity, plugged in the guitar into my amp and tapped on the pickups with a small screwdriver. I got a nice quot;Thunk, thunk thunkquot; noise and then nothing and smoke poured out of the bridge pup cavity. My apartment stunk like burned epoxy for a few hours...

What I think happened was I probably shorted the battery connections to a ground. That's all I can think of.

Back to the drawing board I guess...

I'm sorry your out two pick ups, but I gotta say that is definately a METAL MOMENT!


Originally Posted by Jeff5I'm sorry your out two pick ups, but I gotta say that is definately a METAL MOMENT!

METAL or MENTAL?

Sorry, T. If I had a nickel for every stupid thing that I've done, I would be posting from a laptop on a beach in Puerto Vallarta. You want proof? Check my post count and ask around...lol

If you figure out where the mistake was made, post it. It might prevent someone else from making the same mistake.

Damn. Gotta see bout gettin that effect on stage.


Originally Posted by pinto79So, I guess I'm out a Metal and a Classic... Thanks for your respose Evan...

Here's what happened... I won the Metal and a classic HSS set on Ebay for about $70 for all of them. When they finally arrived, I took my Tele apart (It's generally my test mule) and mounted the two humbuckers and connected them to 2 100K pots (all schematics are from the SD Site...) then I connected them to an EMG output jack with the battery clip and strung up 3 clips to make an 18 volt adapter harness, connected the batteries and checked the voltage prior to connecting it to the clip on the jack, voltage was good so I plugged it in and tucked the wiring into the control cavity, plugged in the guitar into my amp and tapped on the pickups with a small screwdriver. I got a nice quot;Thunk, thunk thunkquot; noise and then nothing and smoke poured out of the bridge pup cavity. My apartment stunk like burned epoxy for a few hours...

What I think happened was I probably shorted the battery connections to a ground. That's all I can think of.

Back to the drawing board I guess...

3 9v batteries? thats 27v man, not 18v

was it the hum and a single you lost? i know EMG don't advise 3 batteries, but i'm pretty sure they can take up to about 28-30v..

tom

Ace Frehley would be proud.


Originally Posted by Imp3 9v batteries? thats 27v man, not 18v

was it the hum and a single you lost? i know EMG don't advise 3 batteries, but i'm pretty sure they can take up to about 28-30v..

tom

Thats the same mistake I made when I first heard of this mod. Its two battery clips to connect to the batteries, and one battery clip to connect to the single pup clip. Its only 18 volts.

But, having said that, shorting the battery to ground wouldn't smoke the pup. It would kill the battery. Something else must have been wrong.

Artie

Edit: Just thinking . . . you may have shorted the pups quot;outputquot; to 18 volts. That would do it.

Don't feel bad. I was restringing a guitar a few months ago, and a bolt of lightning shot across the room. Apparently, a dangling string landed in a power strip, and turned into lightning! I was lucky that my flametop wasn't marred, but when I looked at my Vox modeling amp, it was toast! The 120V went through the string, through the electronics, up the cord, and into the digital amp.

Kinda gives new meaning to quot;Flametop,quot; doesn't it?


Originally Posted by Evan SkoppKinda gives new meaning to quot;Flametop,quot; doesn't it?

Ba dum, ching!


Originally Posted by ArtieTooThats the same mistake I made when I first heard of this mod. Its two battery clips to connect to the batteries, and one battery clip to connect to the single pup clip. Its only 18 volts.

But, having said that, shorting the battery to ground wouldn't smoke the pup. It would kill the battery. Something else must have been wrong.

Artie

Edit: Just thinking . . . you may have shorted the pups quot;outputquot; to 18 volts. That would do it.

The batteries got incredibly hot also. I forgot that. 2 9V's ended up at about 3V each afterwards...