I'm rewiring an old jackson performer guitar to replace the scratchy pots and bad switch. It's an h-s-s with stock jackson pickups, 1 volume, 1 tone, and a 5 way switch.
I'm going to use the seymour wiring diagram but the jackson pickups each have 2 colored wires (red and white) and a plain stranded wire. Both singlecoils and the humbucker are this way. The way it's wired right now is:
neck pickup: red wire to switch, white wire and strand wire to ground
middle pickup: white wire to switch, red wire and strand to ground
humbucker: red wire to switch, white wire and strand to ground
The guitar works fine this way and I figured one of the wires is hot and the other two are ground. But why would the middle pickup use white as the hot while the neck and bridge used red? Does this make sense? Should I re-wire it this way or should I use the red for hot on all pickups? Can anyone share some ideas on how to do this?
Thanks.
I'm going to use the seymour wiring diagram but the jackson pickups each have 2 colored wires (red and white) and a plain stranded wire. Both singlecoils and the humbucker are this way. The way it's wired right now is:
neck pickup: red wire to switch, white wire and strand wire to ground
middle pickup: white wire to switch, red wire and strand to ground
humbucker: red wire to switch, white wire and strand to ground
The guitar works fine this way and I figured one of the wires is hot and the other two are ground. But why would the middle pickup use white as the hot while the neck and bridge used red? Does this make sense? Should I re-wire it this way or should I use the red for hot on all pickups? Can anyone share some ideas on how to do this?
Thanks.
