here is a little tutorial about improvised guitar pickups
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simply a guitar pickup is just a coil of insulated copper wire with a magnet in the center.
most things that seem simple dont always turn out this way but here is an exception(sort of).
now im not recomending that you rip the pickups out of your strat and replace them with the herein mentioned contraptions. but if your building a diddly bow or a frankenstein guitar or just looking to make a new noise then thise is for you
most things that seem simple dont always turn out this way but here is an exception(sort of).
now im not recomending that you rip the pickups out of your strat and replace them with the herein mentioned contraptions. but if your building a diddly bow or a frankenstein guitar or just looking to make a new noise then thise is for you
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if i see anything related to it ill pass it on though
Since the two coils innermost windings are placed adjacent to each other, those windings are over the opposite poles of this special side-pole bar magnet.
According to laws set down many years ago by Scottish scientist Michael Faraday,
a coil of wire passing through a magnetic field will have an induced current that follows the right-hand rule of current flow created .
It is probably more easily demonstrated by looking up Faraday's Laws regarding magnetically induced current flow. This is the same principal that makes everything from huge generators (think Boulder Dam!), to dynamic microphones, to earbuds, to kitchen mixers, etc... work.
Faraday was an interesting person and greatly influential to modern electronics.
I hope this proves somewhat enlightening and not too wordy! ;)
thank you for the clarification.
my apologies to anyone i might have confused.
lucky it didnt kill me
always wear insulating gloves when handling them.
once the tube has been safely discharged you can handle it then
DO NOT OPEN A TV WITHOUT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
The cathode ray tube can carry enough voltage to kill you even years after the TV has been unplugged. I strongly advise heavy research before you pop open an old TV or, best of all, avoidance of it altogether. (This doesn't apply to newer, LCD, plasma, etc. sets but I would still take caution.)
i learned this myself the hard way many years ago.
take all precautions while hunting for useful coils {insulated gloves come to mind} do not touch the neck and side contacts {cathode and anode} at the same time, thats how i got zapped.
but it should still work.
though if the magnet is hugely strong it may dampen down the vibration of the strings some .
let us know if you try it and how it works.