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Pickup Tester

The document describes a guitar pickup tester that holds a pickup under test above strings and allows adjusting the string frequency and dampening. It has components like tuners, a frequency adjustment carriage, string damper, sense and driver coils, and amplifiers to test and adjust the output level of the pickup under test.

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Pickup Tester

The document describes a guitar pickup tester that holds a pickup under test above strings and allows adjusting the string frequency and dampening. It has components like tuners, a frequency adjustment carriage, string damper, sense and driver coils, and amplifiers to test and adjust the output level of the pickup under test.

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Guitar Pickup Tester

Tuners Nut Frequency Adjust Carriage String Damper Drive Coil Sense Coil Pickup Support Base Scale length

Pickup Under Test Bridge

Frequency Adjust Carriage

String Damper Selector

Preamp Driver Amplifier Level Sense and Adjust Tuner Out Pickup support holds pickup under test a pre-settable distance above strings. This is adjustable. Support made of non-magnetic materials.

Nut and bridge are metal angle for ease of construction. Tuners are normal tuners, or custom made if you insist. Frequency Adjust Carriage lets you adjust string frequency by moving a sliding fret (another angle) up and down strings. Also lets you adjust which string is NOT damped by the damper mechanism. There are many ways to do this. Sense coil senses the string vibration and sends output to both tuner and to level servo. Level servo senses output level and adjusts the signal sent to the driver amplifier to keep string output constant. Level adjust sets the threshold of the servo.

Sense and driver coils are placed so they do not cause the PUT to pick their radiation up.

Copyright 2007 R.G. Keen. All rights reserved. No permission for local copies or serving from hosts other than http://www.geofex.com.

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