Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Jeff is right. If you use the cord in the jack, have the volume pots all the way up (full volume) and switch between the pups. It will be off a bit, but give you the ballpark figure. An 11.2K (my neck high gain) would read 10.72K with the 250K for the pot in parallel with that pup.

A good website for easy calcs:
http://www.1728.com/resistrs.htm

Bob, the volume pot and the pup are in parallel so the pot alters the reading a bit lower (also a path for current). The tone pot won't affect the reading because of the capacitor in series with it. DC doesn't go through a capacitor, which is what we are reading with the ohmmeter - DC resistance.

Depending on how the guitar is wired, you can check some guitars without having to unsolder the pickup and still get an accurate reading. The Strat is one such guitar. The only caveat is that you have to make sure the pickup selector switch is on a different pickup when you measure, which means you still have to pull the pickguard, and you measure right at the pickup instead of on the output jack.