Battery Dying Extremely Fast With Set Of STR/AE1 Pickups...

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There's your problem right there. You need a TRS jack, with battery negative connected to the ring so it connects to system ground when you plug in a mono plug. Your current arrangement leaves the battery connected 24/7.

I have it wired to a TRS jack now (Pickups working again) but am not sure how to be able to tell if when unplugged it's not draining 24/7 as before.

If anyone has some additional specificity of which tabs I should use, or can look at the pic and identify if wired correctly, please let me know.

Thank you very much for your help.

ps. For some reason I'm not able to post with the pic of how I wired the input jack.  Will try to add it to my previous post (a couple higher than this one).

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The jack in your last pic has an isolated switch that switches battery positive, as opposed to the TRS arrangement I described in my last post. Either arrangement works, the advantage of switching battery positive is that you'll get less of a pop if you plug in a cable that's connected to an active amp. The isolated switch jack is a Switchcraft L113X. (Note that Alembic sells a version with a longer barrel for through body mounting that's not available elsewhere, at least not that I've seen. The standard version will work fine in a Strat jackplate.) TRS jack is the Switchcraft 12B.

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As long as battery negative is wired to the ring of the jack, and all other ground connections are on the sleeve, you're good to go.

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As long as battery negative is wired to the ring of the jack, and all other ground connections are on the sleeve, you're good to go.

I don't know how to tell if battery negative is wired to the ring of the jack, or if other ground connections are on the sleeve but I will do some more research and see if I can be sure of that..

This whole system is on a terminal block with hand writing on the back of the pickguard to say where wires should be inserted and screwed down.  Would post pics but it's not allowing me to at the moment.

Thank you very much for the help. 

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Did some more research.  Best I can tell it seems my battery ground should be one tab over to the left.

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By the way, this jack I'm using, I think I got from Alembic, if memory serves me, somewhere around four or five years ago.

Still not sure if anyone can clarify if this is the correct ground tab I've soldered to, so that the battery won't be getting drained 24/7.

Thank you.

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Someone just told me an extra ground cable will need to make an appearance on that output jack.  Battery ground I'm told.

Sent me this diagram.