Pickup Wiring HELP

[wyattg99]

I bought 2 hum bucker pickups (both those have a white and red wire twisted together, a black, a green and a bare) and a mini hum bucker (black, white, red, bare). i have three push pull pots that i want to be able to split each hum bucker with. My goal is to have the volume pot (pull up and it splits the bridge), a middle PU tone pot (pull up and it splits the middle PU), a neck tone pot (pull up and it splits the neck PU). i found a diagram that said:

1 3
c1 c2
2 4

connect the red and white to c1, green to 2 then to ground and the black is the hot wire.
so my questions are:
1. what do i do with each black hot wire
2. what do i do with the L R M (normal pot) parts
3. what do i do with the mini hum bucker to split it

 

[Mincer]

Re: Pickup Wiring HELP

Welcome to the forum!

Are these Seymour Duncan pickups or something else? We first need to figure out what the wires are doing. Let us know the layout you have now, as I am sort of confused reading your post. We have lots of great experts here on wiring and would love to get your guitar working the way you'd like.

 

[Adieu]

Re: Pickup Wiring HELP

Different brands have different color codes for which wire is which.

Although with a tester you can read the ohms, giving you some idea of where the coil taps are (roughly 1/2 ohmage is a coil tap hot; largest ohmage is the humbucker hot)

 

[wyattg99]

Re: Pickup Wiring HELP

they are gfs pickups, black is ground, the shield is ground, green is +, it doesnt say what the white and red are connected to but they are twisted

 

[Darg1911]

Re: Pickup Wiring HELP

To split the coils, you are connecting the twisted wires (red and white) to a switched ground. If you just leave them twisted together like they are without connecting them, you get the full humbucker. When those two wires are switched to ground, the coil is split (leaves the slug coil active, with SD pups anyway). The pot part of the push pull pot is wired as usual. The red and white is connected to a terminal on the switch part of the push pull and the ground is jumped to the terminal below it (or above it, depending on your perspective, but it does matter). When the pot shaft is pulled up the ground connects through the switch to the red and white and shorts the coil. That's the basics of the simple split. I have a couple of general links posted below. Someone will probably come along and post a full diagram specific to what you are wanting to do.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/guitar-wiring-explored-humbucker-internals

http://duhvoodooman.com/musical/humbucker_mods/coil-cut_switch_screw.gif

http://duhvoodooman.com/musical/humbucker_mods/humbucker_mods_2.htm