cloudstrife555

excellent input! thanks guys

hey everyone. so i have a beater guitar (a special ii) that i want to throw some slightly better pickups in. i have a set from an epiphone les paul, the silver plated ones with screws exposed for one side(i believe these are adjustable poles?) they look like this: http://www.lespaulstandardguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/humbuckers.jpg anyways, i got them from someone awhile ago and don't know which is the rhythm and which is the bridge pickup. One has a red wire and the other blue. the wires in each split into a white wire (hot) and bare wire wrapped around that (ground), so they must be single conductors. does anyone have an epi they could check to see which is which? i read somewhere that if the pickups are not identical, the bridge will typically have a higher resistance than the neck. is this true? i dont have an ohmmeter on hand currently to check anyways, just curious. if the resistance is the same for both, is there ANY difference between the pickups? I also heard that a higher resistance corresponds to a higher output. is this true? if so, why, shouldn't higher resistance reduce the output? also, i really don't know what it means to be "single conductor" could someone explain this as well? thanks. chris