I have a basic education of electronics.
The Raptor was Peaveys cheap mass production model designed for beginners and shedders. I picked up a broke down model for 50 easy. I thought it had a humbucker, and two single coils and I thought I might learn something from the electronics. Wrong...
It has a 2 wire dual coil, and two single coils. The single coils are external magnetics, which I haven't seen since the end of the 50's. Anyway, I didn't like the Strats fake electronics from the beginning, and this cloned morph, didn't have an input jack to test them...wow something went right!.
The 5 way in there, isn't really a 5 way, Its a 2 pole 3 throw,
The volume pots aren't volumes, they are balance pots that are grounded on one end.
Myth buster #1 - A 250k pot is only capable of handling 250k of variation of signal. A 500k pot handles more bandwidth, actually double the response of the 250!
A true volume pot will have a grounding tab, and two isolated pins that read 0 ohms on one end of the twist and the value of the pot on the other(a 350k volume pot will read 350 on the VOM meter)
I modified this raptor immediately... I added an 8 contact volume-balance slider I pulled from a 50's sylvania console,and a tight mini- on off!
I would just about bet, that this Raptor is all fifties, and that my mods don't change it much!!
see pics...
The Raptor was Peaveys cheap mass production model designed for beginners and shedders. I picked up a broke down model for 50 easy. I thought it had a humbucker, and two single coils and I thought I might learn something from the electronics. Wrong...
It has a 2 wire dual coil, and two single coils. The single coils are external magnetics, which I haven't seen since the end of the 50's. Anyway, I didn't like the Strats fake electronics from the beginning, and this cloned morph, didn't have an input jack to test them...wow something went right!.
The 5 way in there, isn't really a 5 way, Its a 2 pole 3 throw,
The volume pots aren't volumes, they are balance pots that are grounded on one end.
Myth buster #1 - A 250k pot is only capable of handling 250k of variation of signal. A 500k pot handles more bandwidth, actually double the response of the 250!
A true volume pot will have a grounding tab, and two isolated pins that read 0 ohms on one end of the twist and the value of the pot on the other(a 350k volume pot will read 350 on the VOM meter)
I modified this raptor immediately... I added an 8 contact volume-balance slider I pulled from a 50's sylvania console,and a tight mini- on off!
I would just about bet, that this Raptor is all fifties, and that my mods don't change it much!!
see pics...
