Parker Nite Fly new picksups and electronics!

Rob Dukram, a guy I used to hang with in my band days as a teenager stopped by to drop off an old, but sweet Parker Nite fly which wasn't working. After some trouble shooting, I realized the piezo board was shot, several unsuccessful phone calls to Parker's tech support was futile. Rob told me he just loves the guitar, its feel and playability and is not attached to the stock electronics and that he'd be okay with installing regular pickups in there. I checked to see if it was possible, but of course it is with some rigging. I recommended some humbucker pickups that I had liked over the years, a Seymour Duncan '59 for the neck and a Screamin' Demon for the bridge. Rob decided to get the Jason Becker instead of the bridge. He send me the pickups and well, but were lost in Christmas' shit shuffle at the post office during peak shipping season. After getting them I cleared some odds and ends off my bench and got to his guitar. The pickup install on a Parker is not so simple and requires significant rigging to get right. First the humbuckers come with feet for the two screws that works every other brand EXCEPT Parker, so you'll see I had to clip those off, then I had to file/grind the rough edges off. Also, the pole screws needed to be clipped since they bottom out in the Parker Nite Fly's routed pickup cavity. After all that, I removed ALL the previous electronics. All the pots and even the 1/4" jack had to go. During install I realized the nice Japanese pots I had were not long enough for this, so I had to order those. Got them, installed them, and the pickups, soldered everything, and couldn't get the bridge pickup to work! I went nuts trying to figure it out, checked all my connections, I thought it was a faulty 1/4" jack, then I thought it was the toggle switch, then I thought it was one of the new quality pots!! Then I thought, maybe its the pickup!!! So I tested it with a volt meter, and sure enough, DEAD. (in 17 years of swapping pickups I've never came across a faulty pickup!) I called Seymour Duncan tech support (not too bad to get a hold of) and the technician told me to try this and that, I said nothing is working papito, you gotta help me get an RMA and send me a new one or repair it, and after some back and forth he agreed. I finally received the NEW pickup and tested it with the volt meter, and boom, got my. 7.5 ohms of resistance needed. Wired it up, setup the guitar and it sounds and plays like a dream. Rob will choose the knobs for the controls. There is an additional toggle switch from the previous electronic setup that is a ghost, but looks like it might do something cool like shoot sparks out of the guitar! (Ace Frehley style)