Getting rid of hum in positions 2 and 4

[XmartyX]

First of all hello everyone im Marty and I thought this might be the place to get some answers.
I got hot rails for the bridge and neck on my strat, I tried to wire them with spin a split on the 2 tone pots but didn't like the results.
A few days later I rewired it following the autospit diagram on this website, I switched the hot and ground on the middle pickup and screwed it flush to the scratchplate.

So this is where the problems started, I like the sound of the rails split in positions 2 and 4 but don't like the hum, my other strat has texas secials with RWRP middle pickup and i thought the must be some way to do it with a regular middle pickup and some combination of the 4 wires on the hot rails

this is what i ended up with after a few hours of soldering
Red to hot on the switch
White and Bare to ground
Black and Green to the autosplit lug on the switch
it sound great but i have no idea how the pickup is working is it still in series is it still splitting in 2 and 4 which coil is it using when splitting etc
can somebody explain what is happening.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Getting rid of hum in positions 2 and 4

What's your middle pickup?

 

[XmartyX]

Re: Getting rid of hum in positions 2 and 4

Its a fender pickup the strat is a 93 standard and I have had it since new, it is not a RWRP pickup.

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: Getting rid of hum in positions 2 and 4

It doesn't matter that it's not rw/rp, just reverse the black and green on both hotrails, it will split to the other coil and be hum canceling. You may have to reverse the single coil if it's out of phase.

 

[XmartyX]

Re: Getting rid of hum in positions 2 and 4

lol all that messing with different configurations and all I had to do was swap the black and green, I was thinking that would just put it out of phase with the middle.
all part of learning I guess
I assume my wiring configuration is still series humbuckers then split to 1 coil and middle in position 2 and 4 just a different way of going about it

 

[KnifeR]

Re: Getting rid of hum in positions 2 and 4

this is what i ended up with after a few hours of soldering
Red to hot on the switch
White and Bare to ground
Black and Green to the autosplit lug on the switch
it sound great but i have no idea how the pickup is working is it still in series is it still splitting in 2 and 4 which coil is it using when splitting etc
can somebody explain what is happening.

If it is a SD pickup - it is still working proper with series but you reverse the starting and end coil in these minihumbuckers,
for more infos I need a drawing of your wiring and exact pickups of yours.
I am sure I can help you with this,
regards,
KnifeR

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: Getting rid of hum in positions 2 and 4

Follow this diagram: http://cdn.seymourduncan.com/pdfs/support/schematics/1h_1s_1h_1v_1t_5w_as.pdf

If out of phase in 2+4 reverse the middle pickup wires, if 2+4 are not hum canceling reverse the black and green on both hotrails.

I don't even want to try to figure out what you have right now.