Getting technical about pickups

[zorgzorg2]

Hi,

I'm new here, so I hope I do this right.

I am working on a research project about the fender rhodes. Unfortunately, I do not have access to one at the moment, but I need some technical measurements about rhodes pickups.

Could anyone give we some values about the internal resistance, inductance and capacitance of a pickup ? (I guess it's quite easy to get with a multimeter)

I plan on simulating the magnitude response of the pickup, so these values will greatly help me.

Thanks

Martin

[Mark II]

hi martin.
resistance is somewhere between 170 and 190 Ohms.

http://www.fenderrhodes.com/service/pickups.php

sorry, I dont have a multimeter with C and H measure methods.

kind regads
Mark II

[zorgzorg2]

Thanks for the link. Too bad the inductance and capacitance aren't there !

Regards,
Martin

[zorgzorg2]

I can't believe no one reading this has a way to give me values of capacitance and inductance of the pickups...

Please ?

Martin

[Rob A]

Well, it's because it's not as easy as you think to measure directly. Even if you have a meter with capacitance, the value is going to be effectively too low to measure. Inductance won't be directly measurable without special gear either. You'd need to build an L-R circuit and infer the value of L from the time to charge or discharge it from an impulse, or put it on a scope and find a frequency where the reactance and resistance are equal and infer L from R / (F*2pi) for that frequency.