Assistance with Seymour Duncan Pickup Wiring

[Chembound]

Good evening,

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I purchased a set of Seymour Duncan humbucker pickups (Sentient-neck & Pegasus-bridge) and tried to wire them to my Ibanez RGRT421 guitar, unsuccessfully. The 5 way switch is an Ibanez 3SWLSC:

The original wiring for the Quantum humbuckers was as follows:

Neck
Lower Hot - White wire
Cold - Green wire

Upper Hot - Red wire
Cold - Black wire
GND - bare wire with black shrink sleeve

Bridge
Hot - White wire
Tap - Red wire
GND - bare wire with black shrink sleeve
GND - insulated (jumper)wire soldered to bottom of volume pot.
OUT - insulated (jumper) wire soldered to "C" lug of volume pot.



Below is pickup scheme with stock Ibanez Quantum Pickups:


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you


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[beaubrummels]

Someone asked this question recently. I tried to help but I think even using the Duncan color conversion still didn't work.

FWIW Duncan wire colors are:

 

[Artie]

The direct answer to your question is Fig 1. But then position #4 won't be humbucking.

The simple solution is Fig 2. Use the neck screw coil instead of the stud coil. The difference in sound will be very subtle. (This is how I'd do it if it were my guitar.)

But if you really gotta have inner coils, then do a mag flip on the neck pickup, and do Fig 3.

 

[Chembound]

Awesome! Thank you Beaub. for the color code sheet and ArtieT. for the schematic. The mag flip seems like it'll work for me. I'll get to work on it. Have a good one.

-Daniel

 

[Artie]

Yur welcome. Let us know how it turns out.

 

[Chembound]

Success! The wiring scheme worked. Thanks again for your help.