thanks for taking a look at my question. in a 09MIM standard tele, i soldered hot rails (according to sd wiring diagram) in the neck specifically for hum cancelling when switched to the neck pup only position. keeping the orig single coil bridge pup (and grounding) as is. installed, the hot rails in the neck works but does not cancel hum at all when switched to neck only (or any position). its acts just like a single coil with equal 60cycle hum. my mistake somewhere or can i make this work? thank you !
hot rails wired with single coil doesnt humbuck
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frankfalbo
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Re: hot rails wired with single coil doesnt humbuck
It doesn't sound right. If seems like it's operating in single coil mode, or one coil is out of phase with the other. One quick check for that is to reverse the black and white wires, and see what happens.
It doesn't sound right. If seems like it's operating in single coil mode, or one coil is out of phase with the other. One quick check for that is to reverse the black and white wires, and see what happens.
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Funkfingers
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Re: hot rails wired with single coil doesnt humbuck
Welcome to the forum.
What wiring schematic diagram did you follow? Have you connected the bare grounding wire to an appropriate point? Photographs of the wiring in your guitar's control cavity would help enormously.
Welcome to the forum.
What wiring schematic diagram did you follow? Have you connected the bare grounding wire to an appropriate point? Photographs of the wiring in your guitar's control cavity would help enormously.
Re: hot rails wired with single coil doesnt humbuck
thank you. ~~ im using the supplied sthr-1n hot rails for tele wiring diagram. white and red are soldered together and taped. black and bare to vol pot and green to 3way switch. wiring diagram says "if youre combining your sd pup with fender pup in the same guitar, you'll need to reverse the black and green wires on the sd." so, black and bare to vol and green to 3way is actually the suggested reversal~ right? if i follow the diagram as if i was installing 2 hot rails, then i would have green and bare to vol and black to 3way but i am combining only the neck hot rail with the stock fender bridge... the diagram says if i dont reverse the green and black (as i have done) the sd along with the fender will be out of phase. should i try that anyway? control cavity looks like diagram: http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/products/electric/telecaster/501015-115_RevD_web.pdf
thank you. ~~ im using the supplied sthr-1n hot rails for tele wiring diagram. white and red are soldered together and taped. black and bare to vol pot and green to 3way switch. wiring diagram says "if youre combining your sd pup with fender pup in the same guitar, you'll need to reverse the black and green wires on the sd." so, black and bare to vol and green to 3way is actually the suggested reversal~ right? if i follow the diagram as if i was installing 2 hot rails, then i would have green and bare to vol and black to 3way but i am combining only the neck hot rail with the stock fender bridge... the diagram says if i dont reverse the green and black (as i have done) the sd along with the fender will be out of phase. should i try that anyway? control cavity looks like diagram: http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/products/electric/telecaster/501015-115_RevD_web.pdf
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Funkfingers
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Re: hot rails wired with single coil doesnt humbuck
Only the black and green conductors need to be swapped over. The bare grounding wire always goes to ground.
Connecting the bare wire to the PU selector switch both negates the screening for the neck PU and creates a ground loop. No wonder yout HR is noisy.
Only the black and green conductors need to be swapped over. The bare grounding wire always goes to ground.
Connecting the bare wire to the PU selector switch both negates the screening for the neck PU and creates a ground loop. No wonder yout HR is noisy.
Re: hot rails wired with single coil doesnt humbuck
I believe that's your problem-- it should be green & bare to ground, black should go to the 3-way. Try swapping the two wires on the fender pickup (whichever one's going to ground, make that lead, and vice versa).
good luck!
I believe that's your problem-- it should be green & bare to ground, black should go to the 3-way. Try swapping the two wires on the fender pickup (whichever one's going to ground, make that lead, and vice versa).
good luck!
