Humbuckers - green and black wires swapped?

[mike.g.smith]

Hi all

I have 2 patrick eggle berlin pro's that came stock with custom custom/APII pickups. I was replacing a dodgy selector switch in one the other day and noticed that the wiring of the pickups was not as per the colour codes on the duncan site. In my case the red and white wires went to the coil tap (as I would expect), but the black wire went to earth with the shield and the green wire was being used as the hot output to the switch (not the other way around). The pickups have always worked perfectly and coil tapped fine - I was just wondering if this apparent swapping of the black and green wires had any adverse effects that i'm not noticing?

Cheers

 

[scottish]

Re: Humbuckers - green and black wires swapped?

if both pups have the green and black switched then i dont believe it makes a difference. if only one of them did then they would be out of phase.

it may change which coil is active during the split but im really not sure, i dont know enough about this stuff to say for sure. if it sounds good then i wouldnt worry too much

 

[tone4days]

Re: Humbuckers - green and black wires swapped?

+1 to what scottish said ... if you have no problems, you have no problems

you dont mention where you are from ... perhaps you are in the southern hemisphere? ... or maybe left handed ?... or both? ... these things happen you know

good luck
t4d

 

[DazH]

Re: Humbuckers - green and black wires swapped?

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/coil_splitting.html

you just changed from slug to adjustable mate, that's all.

I would suggest you have one to slug and the other to adjustable though if you ever play with it again, that way they will hum-cancel each other, 2 slugs or 2 adjustables will not hum cancel.

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Humbuckers - green and black wires swapped?

The electrical phasing on both pu's was reversed from standard, but since both of them are that way, they're in phase with each other, so no problem.

 

[Robert S.]

Re: Humbuckers - green and black wires swapped?

I've seen this before, usually when the SD pickups were installed by guitar makers and usually from overseas makers.

There really isn't a problem doing it that way.

If you want to change the coil that is selected when split on one of the pickups so that the guitar will be hum cancelling with both pickups on and split, you'll want to change the wire that connects to ground on the split switch from ground to that pickups hot lead (green in this case).

Don't switch the green and black leads or you'll run into phase issues.