Fender Lace Sensor Gold has extra wire


thegreatkris
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09/05/2002 5:37 pm
I recently installed a Fender Lace Sensor Gold into my Squire Affinity Strat. The old pickup and the pickup instructions with the Lace Sensor both have two wires but the actual Fender Lace Sensor Gold has three. What's up with that?
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James8831
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09/05/2002 8:16 pm
The extra wire should be another earth,if you've got orange,green,white then the green and white go to earth at back of pot.
Accuracy,you say? hmm interesting concept..
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09/06/2002 8:32 pm
What exactly is a pot?
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09/07/2002 9:31 am
Kris - pot= potentiometer= what's under your volume and tone controls.


Have a look at the "Capacitor for tone pot on bass" thread that shows a picture of the back of the pots and is a wiring diagram for a standard strat.
Accuracy,you say? hmm interesting concept..
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09/09/2002 1:14 am
Are you saying that the extra wire is a ground and it must be placed exactly where the other ground is?
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09/09/2002 4:56 pm
indeed....Have a look at this.


Lace pickups (stratocaster).

May have confused you earth=ground,here in the UK,at least.

Good Luck....


[Edited by James8831 on 09-09-2002 at 11:58 AM]
Accuracy,you say? hmm interesting concept..
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09/11/2002 3:48 pm
But I was wondering. Why are there two grounds? And why the other pickups have only two wires?
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