INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROFILE

IMPORTANT: READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS THOROUGHLY BEFORE STARTING.

THE FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT BOARD MUST BE HANDLED CAREFULLY TO AVOID DAMAGE.

1. Remove guitar strings

2. Remove the control cavity cover plate .

3. Remove the pickup ring from the neck position pickup. Gently pull enough slack in the cable to remove the pickup from the cavity. You should be able to do this without disconnecting the cable at the other end. If you do not have a neck position humbucker, use the bridge position.

4. With the flexible circuit in the position shown in figure 1, install the pickup into the PROFILE ring. IMPORTANT: DO NOT AT ANY TIME CAUSE THE CIRCUIT BOARD TO CREASE OR BEND SHARPLY, DOING SO MAY DAMAGE THE TUNER.

5. Adjust the height of the pickup so that it is flush with the ring.

6. Make sure the underside of the pickup is free of wax residue . Remove the adhesive liner from the back of the circuit board and press it onto the back of the pickup as shown in figure 3. There should be slack in the circuit board " leg" to allow for pickup height adjustment. This leg should  make an "S" shape from the ring to the back of the pickup where the body of the circuit board is mounted ( See Fig. 3 ) . DO NOT ALLOW THE LEG TO FOLD OR CREASE.

7. Feed the cable from the circuit board through the existing wire holes in your guitar. You may need to lift the other pickups from their cavities to continue feeding the cable through the guitar. Carefully pull the cable into the control cavity.

8. Install the PROFILE ring as well as the other pickups that you may have lifted out.

9. Turn the guitar upside down and find a location for the battery holder. This holder can be mounted inside the cavity or on the underside of the cover plate. If there is no room for the holder supplied a common 9 volt battery clip can be used . If  there is just no room for a 9 volt battery, You can purchase a lithium battery holder from Optronix or your local dealer.

10. Lightly slit the jacket of the cable with a razor down about 2 ½" , making sure not to cut any of the internal wires.  Remove the foil shielding from the cable.

11. Note: The use of soldering flux is necessary when soldering this wire. Strip back the insulation on the individual wires about 1/8" . Twist together the ends of the red wire from the cable and the red wire from the capacitor supplied and slip a piece of the supplied heat shrink tubing over these wires. Slide the tubing down away from the ends. Solder these two wires to the positive ( RED ) of the battery. Slip the other piece of shrink tubing over the black wire from the cable and solder this wire to the battery negative. Pull the shrink tubing up over the solder joints and heat. Solder the white wire to the guitars hot output prior to the volume control. This can be done at the output lug of the toggle switch or at the input lug of the volume pot. Twist together the ends of the bare wire from the cable and the bare wire from the capacitor and solder to the common or ground of the guitar. This wiring will permit you to tune with the volume turned all the way down. NOTE: IF YOU HAVE ACTIVE ELECTRONICS, YOU CAN NOT USE THE SAME BATTERY SOURCE FOR BOTH SYSTEMS. A SEPARATE SOURCE MUST BE INSTALLED FOR THIS TUNER