3 wires to 5 wires check

[Mmath]

Hi, could someone check this conversion please?



I'm gradually working on making the inner/outer split coil and one of the two pickups (not the duncan) was with only 3 wires. I hope that's right.The USB ground is soldered alone in the plate corner.

By the way, I flipped the magnet (on the duncan at the bridge) but I have a bad suspicion that I made the wrong type of rotation. Now, using a magnet, I have in sequence:

neck coil screw (--> repulsive)
neck coil slug (<-- attractive)
bridge coil SLUG (--> repulsive)
bridge coil screw (<-- attractive)

Tnx again for now

 

[Mmath]

Hi, could someone check this conversion please?



I'm gradually working on making the inner/outer split coil and one of the two pickups (not the duncan) was with only 3 wires. I hope that's right.The USB ground is soldered alone in the plate corner.

By the way, I flipped the magnet (on the duncan at the bridge) but I have a bad suspicion that I made the wrong type of rotation. Now, using a magnet, I have in sequence:

neck coil screw (-- > repulsive)
neck coil slug (< -- attractive)
bridge coil SLUG (-- > repulsive)
bridge coil screw (< -- attractive)

Tnx again for now


I just saw that the post appeared three times, sorry. It gave me error 1%$ or something like that twice so I tried again and that was it. sorry.

 

[beaubrummels]

What do you mean by USB? I've never seen that many links in a single pickup. What kind of pickup is it?

 

[ehdwuld]

is that one of the Ibanez Tru Coil pickups with the three coils?

 

[Mmath]

What do you mean by USB? I've never seen that many links in a single pickup. What kind of pickup is it?

the guitar is a vantage vs696, and that is its original pickup at the neck. u

Unfortunately i don't speak english well and maybe i didn't explain well what i did.

That pickup originally came out with 3 wires (red, white and ground). the operation done was to convert that pickup from 3 wires to 5 wires using a usb-pc cable. So I was wondering if it's ok for you.

if possible i would also be very interested in a feedback on the current orientation of my pickups after the magnet on the duncan at the bridge was reversed, hoping sooner or later to understand how to make the connections for inner/outer coil split.

 

[jeremy]

you can use any colors you want. if you wanted to follow duncans color codes it would be this:

north start - black
north finish - white
south start - green
south finish - red

typically duncans are screw coil south, stud coil north. for normal series operation, you wire the two finish wires together and use the north start as hot, and south start as ground.

 

[Mmath]

you can use any colors you want. if you wanted to follow duncans color codes it would be this:

north start - black
north finish - white
south start - green
south finish - red

typically duncans are screw coil south, stud coil north. for normal series operation, you wire the two finish wires together and use the north start as hot, and south start as ground.

What you wrote is helpful. I think I'm missing something though...




​​​​Operating as in [A] does it have any effect? ​​(I don't think so since the magnet is polarized on the sides, but I'm asking...)




Operating as in seems to invert the N with the S with respect to the screws and studs. But isn't it much easier to mount the pu turned to have the N and S inverted? It's true that by doing so (without flipping the magnet) the screws and studs don't change polarity, but does that make any difference?

If the goal is to obtain a specific sequence of NS|SN or NS|NS (or other combinations) it seems to me that it's enough to rotate one of the two pickups and then manage the wiring inside accordingly. No?

It seems like an unnecessarily risky operation, but I repeat, maybe I'm missing something.

 

[ehdwuld]

ok so you converted the 3 wire pick up to a five wire pickup
you taped off the original wires ( are those connected to anything now?)
you now have new wires from a USB cable in place of the original and you want us to tell you if you have it connected correctly

I am afraid you will have to take it back apart and post images of the "operation" you did

we cannot tell from what you have posted if it correct or not

 

[jeremy]

a typical humbucker bar magnet is 2.5" x 0.5" x 0.125"

the magnetic orientation is across the 0.5" measurement. the width of the magnet, not the length.

the whole screw coil is south polarity, the whole stud coil is north polarity.

im not sure what you are trying to suggest in your drawings

 

[Mmath]

a typical humbucker bar magnet is 2.5" x 0.5" x 0.125"
im not sure what you are trying to suggest in your drawings

on the left side I have represented with colors the sides of the magnetic bar just removed from the pickup. And on the right side how the magnetic bar looks at the end of the "rotation". The colors allow you to understand the type of rotation performed.

 

[jeremy]

physically turning the pup doesnt change the polarity of the coils or phase. the magnet is still in the same orientation compared to the coils. flipping the magnet as you did in B will flip the polarity of the coils.

 

[ehdwuld]

It would help if you maintained one thread
Rather than two separate discussions on the one topic

I am confused

 

[Mmath]

It would help if you maintained one thread
Rather than two separate discussions on the one topic

I am confused

Sure, but I can't delete. There was a problem during the post (error 1%s or something like this) and for unknow reason we have two post. I suspect because in message there was "--" symbol with ">" to similate an arrow, but this sequence it's also a code comment.


Tnx for reply jeremy

 

[Mincer]

I've merged these 2 threads.