Pickup Color code Check?!?!

[xxxplorer]

Hey,

I just want to make sure that when I read the duncan wiring diagrams that I am translating my Bill Lawrence colors correctly... as with the duncans putting the red and white to ground should split the coils with the slug coil active... but on the lawrence when I put the green (equivalent to white) and red together and ground, I get the screw coil?

So with my understanding:

Seymour Duncan: Black- slug coil +
White - slug coil -
Red - screw coil +
Green - Screw coil -

Bill Lawrence (Bill and Becky): White - slug coil +
Green - slug coil -
red - screw coil +
black - screw coil -

This is what comes with the bill lawrence.

 

[xxxplorer]

Re: Pickup Color code Check?!?!

I think I have it figured out... the bill lawrence stuff was backwards. Wiring it the way they say would be like using a seymour duncan red wire as hot... resulting in the 'problem' I was having. I will gut the guitar tomorrow using Duncan wiring!

Here is my conclusion:
Duncan black = Lawrence Red (+ North start)
Duncan White = lawrence Black (- north finish)
Duncan Red = Lawrence White (+ South finish)
Duncan Green = Lawrence Green (- South Start)

So My lawrence red would be hot, then I tape black and white together (and can tap for slug coil) then Ground my Green and bare... seem right?

Thanks!

 

[Robert S.]

Re: Pickup Color code Check?!?!

Well, if you assume that BL uses the start leads for hot and ground and the finish leads as the coil link AND that the stud coil is north......

SD start north black - BL start north black
SD finish north white - BL finish north red
SD start south green - BL start south white
SD finish south red - BL finish south green

The give away is when they tell you to connect the green and red.

His diagram of the coils seems to denote black and white as the start leads. The BL page you posted also says to use white as hot but this will put you out of phase with your SD pickup.

My first guess based on the assumption that the black and white leads are the start leads is that you want to use black as hot, white as ground and the red/green as the coil link.

If the start/finish assumption is wrong, use red as hot and green as ground with the black white as the coil link.

SD uses start north as hot so one of your north leads (probably black) on the BL must be used as hot to get the phase correct.

 

[xxxplorer]

Re: Pickup Color code Check?!?!

thanks!