That being the case, we must know the K of a pickup’s form factor to know the overall inductance, but if there is a way to measure up a pickup and run a few calculations to get it… well, I don’t know it.
If we had two 4 Henry coils with a K of 0, the total inductance would be 8H, and if we had a K of 1, the total inductance would be 12H (since M = the sqrt of Coil1*Coil2).
a 2 Henry single coil = 2 henries), whereas a humbucker’s total series-connected inductance is modified by the coupling factor. This coupling factor is denoted as “K” and represents a number between 0 (no flux coupling) and 1 (perfect flux coupling), and mutual inductance is denoted as “M”.Ī single-coil pickup is easier to measure physically and predict because you are merely dealing with the system of a single coil, core/magnet, and string (i.e. The amount to which this occurs is the coupling factor, which is related to the distance between the coils, their geometry (specifically area and height), their turns count, their core permeability, and the permeability of any material between the two cores. To summarize, current flowing in one coil will induce voltage in another coil. I won’t go too in depth in terms of the basic principles of mutual inductance, but all the math is at. We will be dealing with the latter subject. The peculiarities arise in their “greater than the sum of their parts” behavior in several key areas: phase cancellation of higher harmonics, and mutual inductance. Hopefully it will illuminate a few areas which are often missed and bust a few myths about coil shape and magnets.Īt their core, typical humbuckers are just two coils oriented parallel to each other with similar enough electrical characteristics that they cancel induced noise via common mode cancellation. As always, this will be empirical data gathered from testing, and backed up by all the necessary physics and math citations. It has been over a year since my last guitar pickup installment, but I am mentally escaping a few projects by taking a break to work on my coil winder, so I thought I would fill in a few gaps in terms of the unique behavior of humbucking pickups.
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