Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

[Josh Creswell]

Hello,

I'm trying to install a coil tapped pickup in the bridge position of my Telecaster. Not a 'coil split' with a humbucker, but a coil tap with a single coil. The pickup has 5 wires: black, green, white, red, and a bare wire. I can't seem to find any good schematics online that show how to properly install all 5 wires and most diagrams are for coil splitting and are mislabels as coil tapping. Does anyone have experience with installing one of there or have any knowledge that could help me? I'm at a dead end and I'm thinking about just returning the pickup since I can't figure it out.

Thanks
-Josh

 

[KnifeR]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

Hi Josh,
Welcome on this forum
Can you maybe make some pictures of this singecoil 5 wires??
Can you recognize the firma of this pickup??
Best regards,
Peter

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

+1

Photographs of the pickup and cable will clarify several issues at a stroke. A simple, tapped single coil Tele bridge position pickup only strictly needs three conductors.

Four con + shield cable implies either multiple taps or a pickup with the incorrect output cable.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

That doesn't sound right. A tapped single coil should have 3 wires, plus maybe a shield.

4 wires + shield sounds like a humbucker of some sort, e.g. a Stack.

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

Welcome to the forum!

If you have a multimeter/ohmmeter, you may be able to take some resistance measurements to figure out what's what. Measure the resistance between each pairing of two wires and write them in a table. The resistances of the individual taps should add up to the same value as the resistance for the whole coil. You also may have a redundant ground wire that is connected to the shield.

Post more info/pics and you're sure to get some good advice here...

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

I have a Tapped Tele Hot in one of my Teles. You have to use a 5 way switch. The neck pickup is connected so it's ON in the #3 position. The Hot and Vintage bridge output can be #1 or #5. Your Neck combined with either the Hot or Vintage output will be #2 or #4. It's up to you.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

I have a Custom Shop '53 Tapped Tele lead pickup. On this model, the tap point is NOT half of the overall wind.

@Josh. Is your pickup definitely a Seymour Duncan as opposed to a Duncan Designed or a DiMarzio?

 

[Adieu]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

Hello,

I'm trying to install a coil tapped pickup in the bridge position of my Telecaster. Not a 'coil split' with a humbucker, but a coil tap with a single coil. The pickup has 5 wires: black, green, white, red, and a bare wire. I can't seem to find any good schematics online that show how to properly install all 5 wires and most diagrams are for coil splitting and are mislabels as coil tapping. Does anyone have experience with installing one of there or have any knowledge that could help me? I'm at a dead end and I'm thinking about just returning the pickup since I can't figure it out.

Thanks
-Josh

Its is NOT a single, just single coil housing (size).

The pickup itself is a stacked vertical humbucker or a hotrail or a microhumbucker of some kind. Just find out the maker, get their wiring colour codes, and treat as you would a humbucker for wiring it up. Get a switch or pushpull potentiometer to coil tap it.

 

[KnifeR]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

I suppoused the same
this is a single coil size humbucker so brother JOSH you dont have a chance to tap it!!!
Unless you rewire this pickup

I will sugest you to get this humbucker in parallel - it would be an interesting sound for your tele
Regards

 

[Josh Creswell]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.



Here's the picture. It appears as though the white and green wires are soldered together. It has only one row of magnets so I have to assume that it's only a single coil. It might still sound cool, especially wired up a couple different ways, but unfortunantly I think I'll have to return it since no one can figure out how to wire this. Thanks for your help guys.

 

[Josh Creswell]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

I did some more looking around, and I guess it is a humbucker pickup. This was misrepresented to me as a single coil by the use of the tern coil tap and the general appearance. I still may try it out, sometimes you end up with things you're supposed to have by sheer fate, that's assuming I can figure out how to wire up this darn thing.

 

[Josh Creswell]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

By the way, could I wire a humbucker like this and my neck single coil out of phase?

 

[KnifeR]

Re: Installing a coil tapped single coil pickup.

this is not a humbucker - it is just a pickup (semisinglecoil) with hum canceling that why in one coil size you have two coils with RWRP