Pickup Info - Brian GWN

[Bobby Lee]

This is some kinda of "nice to know" info but really don't mean much. I checked the last set of pups I put in a axe b/4 installation and after though the pots and it was not as much change as I expected. I think this is what Ed had said.

Stock pots and gudeman caps. 1 foot cable. Everything turned to "10" on the guitar.

B4 : 8.22/8.69

Installed 8.11/8.43

 

[BrianGWN]

If I correctly follow the numbers you posted, basically those are okay.
If you are saying a pup measure 8.22K and then installed it read 8.11K, that's in the ballpark if taken to be precise it implies the volume pot is somewhat about 500K in value.
If you had a 8.69K pup after installation read only 8.43K, that's rather low, with a 500K volume pot it should be somewhere around 8.54K. Is it possible you are using a production LesPaul with a 300K volume pot?, 8.69K connect to a 300K pot would give a result down around 8.43K .
The point is that roughly speaking with a pickup measuring around 8K and a volume pot measuring around 500K, when connected together the net measurement should be a little lower than the pickup, about 125 ohms (0.125K) or so lower. No big woop...

 

[Bobby Lee]

Stock Gibson 500k pots, so who knows. 97 R8.