{"id":774,"date":"2010-04-26T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:58:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:58:57","slug":"temperature-and-guitar-pickup-dc-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/temperature-and-guitar-pickup-dc-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature and Guitar Pickup DC Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is a follow-up to&nbsp;our previous Blog entitled, &#8220;How Important is Guitar Pickup DC Resistance?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We decided to further demonstrate an&nbsp;important property of guitar pickup DC resistance.&nbsp; That is,&nbsp;how temperature can affect the DC resistance reading on the SAME pickup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we did a simple experiment for you.&nbsp; This will help demonstrate the point.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We took the SAME pickup, a 2009 Lollar Vintage T Series bridge, and placed it in three different temerature settings and photographed the results.&nbsp; As you will see,&nbsp;the same pickup will&nbsp;have&nbsp;different Ohm meter readings when the pickup&#8217;s temperature changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Setting Number 1 &#8211; Room Temperature<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-779\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-room-temperature.jpg\" alt=\"This particular Lollar Vintage T Series bridge reads a little over 7.1K at 68 degrees fahrenheit.\" class=\"wp-image-779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-room-temperature.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-room-temperature-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-room-temperature-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption>This particular Lollar Vintage T Series bridge reads a little over 7.1K at 68 degrees fahrenheit.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you will find our stock Lollar Vintage T Series bridge (one of our most popular, by the way).&nbsp;&nbsp;The DC resistance is taken at room temperature, as indicated by the thermometer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Setting Number 2 &#8211; Warm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-788\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-warm.jpg\" alt=\"This same Lollar Vintage T Series bridge has a reading of almost 7.9K after it has been warmed up for about an hour. \" class=\"wp-image-788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-warm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-warm-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-warm-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption>This same Lollar Vintage T Series bridge has a reading of almost 7.9K after it has been warmed up for about an hour.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This next photo shows&nbsp;a higher DC resistance reading, taken on the very same Lollar T Series bridge&nbsp;pickup.&nbsp; We let this pickup sit&nbsp;at the warming station for about an hour.&nbsp; (We warm all of the pickups at the warming&nbsp;station before they are immersed in the molten wax at the potting station.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Setting Number 3 &#8211; Cold<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-792\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-cold.jpg\" alt=\"Now this same Lollar Vintage T Series bridge has a reading of just under 6.4K - it has been sitting in the refrigerator. \" class=\"wp-image-792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-cold.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-cold-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guitar-pickup-dc-resistance-cold-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption>Now this same Lollar Vintage T Series bridge has a reading of just under 6.4K &#8211; it has been sitting in the refrigerator.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This final photo shows&nbsp;how a colder temperature affects the&nbsp;DC resistance.&nbsp; We let the same Lollar Vintage T Series bridge pickup sit in the refrigerator for about an hour. You can see how&nbsp;lowering the&nbsp;temperature of the pickup&nbsp;also lowers the DC resistance reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow-up to&nbsp;our previous Blog entitled, &#8220;How Important is Guitar Pickup DC Resistance?&#8221;&nbsp; We decided to further demonstrate an&nbsp;important property of guitar pickup DC resistance.&nbsp; That is,&nbsp;how temperature can affect the DC resistance reading on the SAME pickup. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/temperature-and-guitar-pickup-dc-resistance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[138,12],"tags":[147,136,145,144,143,148],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-resistance","category-technical","tag-cold-guitar-pickup","tag-dc-resistance-of-guitar-pickups","tag-how-does-temperature-affect-dc-resistance","tag-lollar-pickups-dc-resistance","tag-temperature-and-guitar-pickup-dc-resistance","tag-warm-guitar-pickup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3INU8-cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}