hello all,
so i was daydreaming about trying to build a pickup and am finding that it has quite a bit of overlap with some of the work i do at work. i was wondering if anyone has ever heard of using different coil geometries for the coil? i know the wrapping tiny ~43awg wire in a solenoid is the standard, but has anyone hear of using saddle coils or Helmholtz coils or birdcage coils?
my initial thoughts were that the other geometries would require a fatter magnet wire to be used. i do not have any experience with pickup building, but i am guessing that the fatter the wire the less broadband of a frequency profile of the inductor. i also don't have a clue about how sensitivity is affected by moving to a fatter wire with less turns or a saddle coil or something like that.
like i said, i don't know what i'm doing but i just thought to throw this out there and see if anyone has any experience with this. so just to be more specific, anyone have an opinion of what a pickup that would use a 22awg magnet wire in a saddle coil geo would be like? or if it was even possible? i'm just figuring that this might be fun to tinker around with at work. thanks to any electro-guitar engineers out there who may shine some light on this...
so i was daydreaming about trying to build a pickup and am finding that it has quite a bit of overlap with some of the work i do at work. i was wondering if anyone has ever heard of using different coil geometries for the coil? i know the wrapping tiny ~43awg wire in a solenoid is the standard, but has anyone hear of using saddle coils or Helmholtz coils or birdcage coils?
my initial thoughts were that the other geometries would require a fatter magnet wire to be used. i do not have any experience with pickup building, but i am guessing that the fatter the wire the less broadband of a frequency profile of the inductor. i also don't have a clue about how sensitivity is affected by moving to a fatter wire with less turns or a saddle coil or something like that.
like i said, i don't know what i'm doing but i just thought to throw this out there and see if anyone has any experience with this. so just to be more specific, anyone have an opinion of what a pickup that would use a 22awg magnet wire in a saddle coil geo would be like? or if it was even possible? i'm just figuring that this might be fun to tinker around with at work. thanks to any electro-guitar engineers out there who may shine some light on this...
