I am totally new to this forum and thanks in advance for any help.
I decided to split the Burstbucker Pros in my Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded(2011, dicontinued) last weekend.
As each pickup has only one wire(hot signal wire wrapped inside the earth wire) coming out, I disassembled the pickups and found that there is no so-called color codings.
There was only one black wire and one white wire from each coil and the white ones were solder together inside the pickup, so I assume that they were the finishes.
Then, I wired the neck one using a on-off-on dpdt mini toggle as in the picture attached(I drew my wiring diagrams so it's kinda clumsy).
The bridge one died because I accidentally broke the start wire of the stud coil.
I am now using P-Rails Hot and it has no problem so I got confused.
I thought that at the up position it should be single coil(the screw one because I wanted to split the screw one), at the middle position it should be off and at the down position it should be humbucking in series.
However when I plug in my guitar with humbucking on i.e. down position, it has almost no sound.
When I use the single coil with the bridge, the volume was halved.
I tried to investigate into the bridge one and the start wire of that screw coil was linked to hot.
I am new to splitting so I am kind of nervous about this.
Does this mean I reversed the circuit?
Here is a photo of the broken coil from the bridge one.
I found that if I do not touch the strings or anything that was linked to the earth wire there would be some serious humming. Is that normal or is the earth not properly earthed i.e.link to the sleeve?
Here's photo of the wiring(it should called baseplate instead I think and I apologize for the unclear circuit, I can't find the perfect angle for shooting every route on it).
I decided to split the Burstbucker Pros in my Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded(2011, dicontinued) last weekend.
As each pickup has only one wire(hot signal wire wrapped inside the earth wire) coming out, I disassembled the pickups and found that there is no so-called color codings.
There was only one black wire and one white wire from each coil and the white ones were solder together inside the pickup, so I assume that they were the finishes.
Then, I wired the neck one using a on-off-on dpdt mini toggle as in the picture attached(I drew my wiring diagrams so it's kinda clumsy).
The bridge one died because I accidentally broke the start wire of the stud coil.
I am now using P-Rails Hot and it has no problem so I got confused.
I thought that at the up position it should be single coil(the screw one because I wanted to split the screw one), at the middle position it should be off and at the down position it should be humbucking in series.
However when I plug in my guitar with humbucking on i.e. down position, it has almost no sound.
When I use the single coil with the bridge, the volume was halved.
I tried to investigate into the bridge one and the start wire of that screw coil was linked to hot.
I am new to splitting so I am kind of nervous about this.
Does this mean I reversed the circuit?
Here is a photo of the broken coil from the bridge one.
I found that if I do not touch the strings or anything that was linked to the earth wire there would be some serious humming. Is that normal or is the earth not properly earthed i.e.link to the sleeve?
Here's photo of the wiring(it should called baseplate instead I think and I apologize for the unclear circuit, I can't find the perfect angle for shooting every route on it).
