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Old July 2nd, 2009, 12:15 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jivetrain View Post
...... what impact does the length have then? ........
It doesn't. The difference is like spitting in the ocean. A 7k ohm pickup wound with 40AWG wire has about 6673 feet of wire wrapped around a pickup. That's about 1.25 miles. Two more feet of any gauge will not matter.

Only if the signal wire is very close to the ground for a long distance (like a guitar cord) will it impact capacitance.
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