JB/Pearly Gates wiring with PRS rotary?

Toejam

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So my 1997 PRS CE24 is off at my local guitar shop for some fret work and pickup replacement/wiring. I bought the guitar 5 years ago from Reverb, it came with the Pearly Gates set from the prior owner, but I was never really sure what was going on with the wiring on the rotary switch, as the neck pickup sounded brighter and maybe a little out of phase in a couple positions. I have a JB to replace the bridge PG. My tech just called me with the JB now wired up fine, but it turns out one of the PG neck coils is not working, so I'm having him order me a new PG for the neck directly from Duncan.

Question about the wiring:
I want full standard series bridge humbucker in first rotary position all the way clockwise. The second position I'm not sure if I want coil split or just parallel. Third position I want just the standard two humbuckers in series. Fourth position either coil split or maybe parallel. Fifth position as full neck humbucker.
Would parallel wiring be better for the two and four positions or should I go inner or outer coils on them? Any advice would be appreciated.
 

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Those rotary switches are not terribly flexible. The stock wiring with Duncans will require the magnet of one of the pickups to be reversed. POs 1 and 5 will be full bridge and neck humbucker. 2/3/4 are combinations of coils from each pickup either in series or in parallel
 
Those rotary switches are not terribly flexible. The stock wiring with Duncans will require the magnet of one of the pickups to be reversed. POs 1 and 5 will be full bridge and neck humbucker. 2/3/4 are combinations of coils from each pickup either in series or in parallel
Ah, okay. Thanks for that info. I thought I read that one time, that one of the magnets needed to be flipped to have other pickup brands to be in phase with the PRS switch.
 
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