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42 awg 43 awg plain enamel wire formvar enameld wire for guitar pickups
How does a pickup work?
The most professional guitar pickup wire manufacturer, we offer formvar/plain enameled copper wire. 42awg, 43awg, 44awg
The wire is mainly used in winding guitar pickups , and is a favorite among many custom pickup shops.
| 42awg enameled copper wire | ||||
| Characteristics | Technical requests | Test results | ||
| Conductor diameter | 0.063mm±0.002 | 0.063mm | 0.063mm | 0.063mm |
| Conductor resistance | ≤ 5.900 Ω/m | 5.478 | 5.512 | 5.482 |
| Breakdown voltage | ≥ 400 V | 1768 | 1672 | 1723 |
At its absolute simplest, a guitar pickup consists of a magnet with a bundle of wire coiled around it. The magnet produces a magnetic field around itself and the wire coil.
The magic bit is this: If you wiggle certain metallic objects (like a guitar string, for example) in this magnetic field, a small electrical current gets generated in the wire coil.
That’s it. Really. You can think of a pickup as being, essentially, a tiny electrical generator* and, when you strum a chord, you are providing the vibrating-string energy which is converted into electrical energy, sent to your amp and made bigger (technical term).
Of course, things can always be made a little more complicated and our magnet and coil can be modified to achieve different tonal aims. First, though, let’s expand a little on our very basic pickup principal.