George Lynch Kamikaze Wiring Issue

[iYOAK556]

So I’m wiring a project with a George Lynch Kamikaze setup, one push/push pot to control volume and pickup selection. It’s wired as per the diagrams I can find, however my bridge pickup(SD Jupiter) is split and is now essentially a single coil. That is not the intended result. I don’t have a picture of mine right now but it’s wired just like the attached picture.

What would be causing the bridge to coil split if wired in this configuration?

 

[Mincer]

Welcome to the forum!

If the series link wires were not connected to each other (red & white in Duncan pickups), it can cause this. Also, a bad coil. What are the other wires doing on the Jupiter?

 

[iYOAK556]

Welcome to the forum!

If the series link wires were not connected to each other (red & white in Duncan pickups), it can cause this. Also, a bad coil. What are the other wires doing on the Jupiter?

Standard SD wires. Red/white soldered together, green/bare to the ground and black to the top lug like in the photo. It’s possible the red/white came unsoldered under the heat shrink I have on them but that’s unlikely. Worth checking again I suppose.

 

[Mincer]

Measure the DCR of the pickup, too to confirm both coils are working (and it isn't the switch).

 

[jeremy]

if its switching between neck and bridge fine, i doubt its the switch. like dave said, check the dcr

 

[iYOAK556]

Figured it out. Started checking DCR and all that and on the surface everything was as it should be. Then I noticed the hot wire looked odd. Apparently when I stripped the wire shielding, I had my strippers set too low and took off some wire strands. Basically made the wire half the gauge it needed to be. Stupid mistake that resulted in some weird behavior. Stripped it properly, soldered up and I no longer have a single coil in the bridge .

Thanks guys, at least motivated me to start troubleshooting.

 

[Mincer]

Woohoo! Being that pickups and wiring systems in electric guitars aren't super complex, an ordered approach to troubleshooting can reveal the culprit pretty quickly.

 

[Artie]

I'm glad you got it worked out, so consider this just an FYI. The solution you did, wouldn't have caused, or fixed, the problem. More likely, something was touching that shouldn't have. In jostling your wiring, you simply "untouched" it.

The gauge of one strand of the pickups hookup wire is still much larger than the pickups coil wire. What you did, should have had no affect.

But again, the important thing is you got it worked out.