MEC soapbar question.

[bassmahn]

Greetings all!
I am planning on putting in a Aguilar OBP - 3 into my streamer LX 5.
I was wondering if anyone knows what the MEC pickup leads represent.
I have a white wire (18 guage) from each pu to the blend pot, and a red wire (22guage) that goes to the preamp board.
I assume that the white line is the output or the postive lead, I am not sure what the red line is.... Is that the earth ground or the negative lead?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!

 

[Florin]

Hello mate,
The white wire is the pick-up wire, it must be coaxial and have a positive lead and a ground.
The red wire is for power, you have active pickups, they work with bateries.

And welcome to the Warwick community mate , Take a coffe with us at the Warwick caffe

 

[bassmahn]

Thanks for the info!
So, now I need to figure out how to supply power to the pickups with this preamp...
On the wiring diagram for the pre, I didn't see any power terminals from the pre-amp module to the pickups....

Bollocks! I wanted to wait on swapping my MEC's with Bart's...
So yea... I guess more help please!!!

 

[Florin]

It is possible that tre red wire to go directly from one batterie. Show us the diagram please.

 

[bassmahn]

I am not quite sure how to post the actual page on here, so here is a link to the wiring diagram.

I am going to go with a 4 knob configuration so I will not have to modify my bass.
Volume, Blend, stacked treble and bass, mid with a push pull freq. selection...

Thank you very much for the help! [/img]