H575 Electronics question

[lifewithasong]

Hi All,

 

So I've decided to swap out the Schallers with PAF-style replacements. As some of you may know, the Schallers have the four-conductor lead, and the PAF style has a single silver wire. Well, I successfully got the Schallers out and soldered and installed the PAFs in in the manner that they are supposed to be, and now have very low output on all the strings except the top E AND an enormous hum sound--almost like 60-cycle you hear with single coils, but a little louder. May be some type of ground problem? Checked and re-checked to make sure that the wire braiding around the leads is not touching anything but the bottoms of the pots. Toggle switch still works just fine. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Greg

[big bob]

Hi All,

 

So I've decided to swap out the Schallers with PAF-style replacements. As some of you may know, the Schallers have the four-conductor lead, and the PAF style has a single silver wire. Well, I successfully got the Schallers out and soldered and installed the PAFs in in the manner that they are supposed to be, and now have very low output on all the strings except the top E AND an enormous hum sound--almost like 60-cycle you hear with single coils, but a little louder. May be some type of ground problem? Checked and re-checked to make sure that the wire braiding around the leads is not touching anything but the bottoms of the pots. Toggle switch still works just fine. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Greg

 

which pot did you ground to. there are two volume pots.

[lifewithasong]

which pot did you ground to. there are two volume pots.

 

I grounded the braiding around each wire to its respective volume pot.

[big bob]

I grounded the braiding around each wire to its respective volume pot.

check to make sure you have the not reversed the connection to the jack. that being said if all you did was remove the old pups and replace with new two connector lead, that is to say you left everything else as it was.. you have a bad ground connection. did you maybe break a ground to another pot while you were working?

[NoNameBand]

Also, check the bridge ground and make sure nothing is grounding out.