Polarity Question

[timand]

First of all - thanks very much to Roberts S - he has either helped me out greatly or given me half the knowledge I need to be dangerous! I think its the former!

Anyway - here goes.

I am adding a Fralin Blues Special to the neck and middle positions of my strat. I have a JB Jr in the bridge which is split to a "tapped" volume pot. Currently the hot is black, green is ground and red and white are twisted together on the center of a "tapped" volume pot.

According to Lindy Fralin - his neck pickup is "south up and ground to hot clockwise" - which means the middle pickup would be north up with couterclockwise rotation.

Given my limited knowledge - I figure I will run the JB jr to match the neck pickup polarity (it wil never be combined with it though) - and that means I am matching up to a north counter pup - I'll wire the JB jr accordingingly(assuming JB jr clockwise winding) :

Green Hot
Black Ground
Red/White twisted together attached on the "tapped" volume pot

Right or wrong? - if the SD are wound counter clockwise - then I would wire it:
Red hot
White ground
green/black twisted together on "Tapped" volume pot

Which one is it? How did I do - let me know - thanks to all who have helped..

Tim

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Polarity Question

My experience with combining Fralin and Duncan pickups is that all I had to do is reverse the hot and ground on one pickup only to make everything sound right.

My buddy AJ uses a Fralin steel pole 43 with two Duncan SSL-1's. I reversed the hot and ground on the SP-43 and all is well.

I use a Fralin Tele Stock neck pickup and Duncan Jerry Donahue bridge pickup in one of my Teles. In that case I reversed the hot and ground of the JD and also moved the lead from the bassplate of the JD to the white wire instead of the black.

Again: all is well.

Lew