A dimarzio is bugging me

[Tuttermuts]

hi I'm new here, I bought a dimarzio super distortion(marked dp 100) somewhere second hand. I tried installing a few times it and each time it sounds weak, barely has tone into it, and the volume is much lower than the other pickup. I did some research and found that super distortions come with 5 wires( red(hot), black, white, green and bare(ground)). The pickup that I have has no green wire, I read somewhere it's possible that someone wired it from the inside to the bare one, but even If I look under the first layer of tape there is no green to be found.

it looks like this, from the two coils there are 4 wires one from the side and one from the bottom of the coil. The two side wires come togheter as red, the two bottom wires become black and white. The bare is wired to the baseplate and has nothing else to it.

Since it's second hand I'm lookin to repair it myself(you know, to learn a bit about pups). Can someone tel me where the green wire should be coming from?(the green should be going with the bare, and black/white should be soldered togheter)

(btw,I feel kinda akward posting about dimarzios on the seymour duncan forum, hope nobody has probs with that)

reading around here I stumbled onto something: it seems I have and old version,it's a double cream and it has no screws coming out of the plate neither has it holes for that.

 

[tone4days]

Re: A dimarzio is bugging me

welcome

no prob asking about dimarzio pups here ... i am not convinced you have an actual dimarzio there given the differences in wires, but i won't get into that for now ... let's just see about getting the pup working properly ... i am also assuming that you do not intend to use coil splitting ...

ok, here's the thing ... each coil has a 'start' and a 'finish' ... (this is where the 4 wires come from in a normal case) ... consider the start of the first coil as the 'hot' and the finish of the second coil to be the 'ground' ... the finish of the first coil gets connected to the start of the second .... if they have been joined (then brought out as 'red') this is to allow coil splitting ... for normal humbucker operation, just tape off this wire and keep it from touching anything ... this will keep the two coils connected in series, allow for full power output and hum cancelling

so in the case of the pickup you describe, attach black as hot and white as ground and you should be good to go (if the pup hasnt been damaged) ... the bare should be ground as well ...

if you happen to use this in a H-H guitar and the middle switch position (both pups in parallel) sounds bad, go back and switch the wite as hot and black as ground

if you have been using red as hot, you have only been using one of the coils (i bet you had hum too, right?)

good luck
t4d

 

[Tuttermuts]

Re: A dimarzio is bugging me

thx allot, so the only thing I need to find out now is wich coil is wich. And give er another go.

 

[teleblooz]

Re: A dimarzio is bugging me

contact steve@dimarzio.com and he'll provide you with the proper way to wire that bad boy.

 

[Tuttermuts]

Re: A dimarzio is bugging me

WHOOOHOOOOW!!! man this thing fries even lava! Thanks so much!!
I just had a go for it, I didn't even tune the floyd back just tested it a few seconds loosely(the two bottom stings where sorta drop tuned into a diminished interval, man what a rush!!!)

FIREEEEE!!!!!!:banana: :banana: :banana:

 

[tone4days]

Re: A dimarzio is bugging me

happy to help

cheers
t4d