How do you increase battery length in active pickups.
How do you increase battery length in active pickups.
I always Do! thats the problem! Its somehow draining the battery length without even being plugged in. Does anyone know what the average battery life of a battery in an active pickup is? it may be that im just expecting more juice to come from the battery?!
I think its supposed to be around 100 hours.
Usually if you disconnect it stops the power... thats what i do and it works
"If you left your guitar plugged in day and night, the battery should still last a month."
from EMG
That's BS. I've accidently left mine plugged in for a day or two and a new battery was junk after that.
To the OP. If you don't feel confident in doing the wiring yourself just take it to your local guitar shop. It's a easy fix since you have all of the correct parts and they would probably not charge you much at all to fix it.
looks to me like theres only 2 connections to the output jack, dont stereos jacks have 3? ring (battery ground) sleeve (main ground) and tip (hot)? it appears like you have a mono jack bud...
again though, we need better pictures of the jack connections!!!!!!
alternatively (one in a million shot) if you bought your batteries wholesale and all the ones youve tried are out of the same box/batch there's a chance theyre out of date or a dodgey lot, but like I say- but this is about as likely as your mx250 turning into scarlett johannsen and begging you to practice your fingering all night long ;) (get your mind out the gutter, its a guitar reference, lol)
IMO:
i) try a totally different batch (even brand) of battery
ii) GET US BETTER PICS!!!!!!! IT LOOKS LIKE A MONO!!!!!!!!!
looks to me like theres only 2 connections to the output jack, dont stereos jacks have 3? ring (battery ground) sleeve (main ground) and tip (hot)? it appears like you have a mono jack bud...
again though, we need better pictures of the jack connections!!!!!!
alternatively (one in a million shot) if you bought your batteries wholesale and all the ones youve tried are out of the same box/batch there's a chance theyre out of date or a dodgey lot, but like I say- but this is about as likely as your mx250 turning into scarlett johannsen and begging you to practice your fingering all night long ;) (get your mind out the gutter, its a guitar reference, lol)
IMO:
i) try a totally different batch (even brand) of battery
ii) GET US BETTER PICS!!!!!!! IT LOOKS LIKE A MONO!!!!!!!!!
HAHAH! that made my day! Ok i will get some better pics, thanks fellas i really appreciate the help, ill get some pics up soon, its 11:30 here (UK) but ill have some up by tommorow.
Ill try my best to get some clear ones of the jack wiring, my cameras not great at close range but ill try my hardest and leave a descriptions.
thanks again!
I doubt it mate, my eclipse has one of them and I believe it is a ground thats permanently wired to the bridge just in case u wanna change to passives- active pups dont use this ground as they are internally grounded, but as soon as you put passives in your gonna need that wire to stop your guitar humming like a bumble bee on meth :lol:.
you dont sound like you have too much experience with guitar wiring so I would use this problem as a learning experience- get a diagram off the EMG website, desolder all your connections and rewire according to the diagram- this way you'll know exactly whats wrong if it goes arse over tit, plus you learn what's what ;)
I doubt it mate, my eclipse has one of them and I believe it is a ground thats permanently wired to the bridge just in case u wanna change to passives- active pups dont use this ground as they are internally grounded, but as soon as you put passives in your gonna need that wire to stop your guitar humming like a bumble bee on meth :lol:.
you dont sound like you have too much experience with guitar wiring so I would use this problem as a learning experience- get a diagram off the EMG website, desolder all your connections and rewire according to the diagram- this way you'll know exactly whats wrong if it goes arse over tit, plus you learn what's what ;)
no i dont have much experience with wiring, I know what the wires do and im familiar with electronics but i dont know where everything should go u get me?
I dont know whether i should tackle it myself or get someone to fix it, i know a guy whos really good with anything guitar based and he'd probably do it for me quite cheaply.
but yeh ill leave that earth wire where it is then! thanks for the warning!
the batteries should never discernably lose voltage like that, unplug the guitar though as that disconnects the circuit so the battery won't be drained at all