Fender telecaster pickup with SD strat pickups

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ThomasP

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Hello everybody,

I know there is some information available on the Seymour Duncan website about polarity and mixing Fender and SD pickups but I'm very confused, here is my problem/project :

I managed ton put a "fender telecaster texas special custom shop bridge pickup" in the bridge position of a stratocaster pickguard.

Now I have 2 Seymour Duncan stratocaster single coil that are RWRP and I what to put them in middle and neck position. I know both are RWRP so no hum canceling with neck and middle in parallel but, my question is, do I need to switch the two wire of the Fender pickup to flip the phase or the wind and polarity will be ok ?

All I know about the telecaster texas special custom shop bridge pickup is that it's polarity is "south up". I don't know what it means and I dont know if I have to wire it like hot wire to hot and ground wire to ground or flip the phase for it to be in phase with the strat Seymour Duncan pickups RWRP.

Thank you for your time and knowledge and sorry if this was covered somewhere obvious.
Thomas
 

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Hi Thomas, don‘t get confused. With single coils you only need to know the polarity, the other things can be managed.
The Fender is south up, that means on top of the pickup is a south pole. The Duncans are reverse poled, since Duncans are north up normally, these reverse poled are south up. So you have 3 pickups south up.
 
If your pickups are Duncan RW/RP single coils such as “SSL-1 RW/RP” etc, they will be North up. They will be hum-cancelling if the Texas Special bridge is South up, but you will need to wire the SSL-1s in reverse connection. However there are a few of the Duncan strat pickups that have different magnet polarity. It is kind of confusing IMO, because they should simply state this info in the product description.
 
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I believe that only Antiquity Texas Hots are the only production pickup that is reverse phase from the rest of the SD line, which makes it in phase with modern Fender pickups.
 
that may be true, i get why seymour did it, but also... it would be better if everything was consistent
 
This is my summary. Please let me know if you think it is wrong.

SSL-1
"clockwise towards ground & South Up"

SSL-1 RW/RP
"clockwise from ground & North Up"

Antiquity Texas Hot
"clockwise from ground & North Up"

Antiquity Texas Hot RW/RP.
"clockwise towards ground & South Up"

Antiquity II Surfer
"clockwise towards ground & South Up"​

Antiquity II Surfer RW/RP.
"clockwise from ground & North Up"

Fender CS 69 Strat
"clockwise from ground & South Up"​

Fender Texas Special Tele Bridge
"clockwise from ground & South Up"​

Fender Texas Special Tele Neck
"clockwise towards ground & North Up"​​
 
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From that info, the bridge and middle position as well as the neck and bridge position will both be noiseless when in-phase, but the other positions will not be.
 
So, for the telecaster bridge pickup I wire it backward for it to be in phase with the two SD pickups? The white (hot) to ground and the black (ground) to hot ?

And there won't be any hum cancelation on position 2&4?

Thanks
 
ThomasP said:
So, for the telecaster bridge pickup I wire it backward for it to be in phase with the two SD pickups? The white (hot) to ground and the black (ground) to hot ?

And there won't be any hum cancelation on position 2&4?

Thanks
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1) Both the S.D single coils need to be connected in reverse.. Ie. The white wire to ground and the black wire to the blade switch

2) There will be no hum in position 2 - Correct! However, position 4 will hum because you have two identical pickups for neck and middle.

I don't know if you are using the Bridge + Neck pickup selection. If you do, the neck + bridge will have hum-cancelling.
 
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