Questions about my 'Do It All' Wiring

[Juanhanglo]

I've been wiring up my new Warmoth with my Do It All wiring and a new 5 way Superswitch. I am getting some unexpected results so I was wondering what I was doing wrong, since I've been staring at it too long...

Originally I had to flip a magnet on the neck pickup. This neck pickup is completely rw/rp so that's what is messing me up. Wiring it like this diagram (below), I had to reverse the neck green & black to be in phase. Problem is the 2 & 4 positions, which are giving me either neck side coils or bridge side coils together, in phase and humbucking instead of the inside coils & outside coils in phase and humbucking. So I am guessing this has to do with the reverse polarity. So, is this possible with a rw/rp pickup? The sounds I am getting now aren't bad at all, just not what I am used to. Can this diagram be altered to get what I need?

I've don't that scheme plenty of times.

You don't need to flip the magnet.

Both pickups are n-s from factory, right? By that I mean both north coils either face the bridge or neck, right?

If so, you are using a North coil from one pickup and a South coil from another in both of those split positions. No mag flipping or polarity is necessary.

I may be wrong, but i think the only time you need a mag fllip is when you want the full prs setup with the outer or inner coils in series.

I guess proof is in the ibanez hh 5way schematic. There, they always split to inner coils at position 4 with no issues. If you can do inners that way, the outers are done the same, no problem.

I usually use 5way superswitches in my builds. For the most part i wire them:
bridge bucker series
Inner coils parallel
*both buckers parallel.
*Neck single
Neck bucker

The asterisked positions are pickup and guitar specific. The variants are as follows

Neck single could become neck bucker parallel or outer coils parallel.

The middle spot could become Neck bucker and bridge outer coil to get an 8k Neck bucker and half a 16k bridge for example. This gives a cool seemingly partial out of phase thing that I like.


If you are really stuck, I could draw up a diagram for you. Let me know

 

[Mincer]

Thing is, you do need to flip the magnet to keep everything in phase and hum-cancelling. And this should be outer or inner coils in parallel.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Hey guys! Sorry for reviving this thread, but his seems to be exactly what I needed. I have a HH Charvel with a 5 way super switch and an ON/ON series;parallel switch. I'm swapping pickups and I'm planning on using the diagram posted a few pages back to do it. The thing is, I'm not sure if I need to adapt any connections to include the switch. Would you be able to tell me if this makes sense?

Here's the diagram from this thread and the original Charvel diagram:



And here's my initial plan, trying to mix the two diagrams together. Is this right? Am I dumb? Let me know!

No, that's not going to work. On the bridge pup, you have to keep the baseplate ground and the coil start wire (usually the green wire) separate. And you've got the neck hot wire (black) going to ground.

 

[Mincer]

I am bumping this as my question is related. I noticed that DiMarzio sells a rather expensive pre-wired harness that does what this wiring does. Their diagram doesn't mention flipping a magnet though...is theirs still in phase and humbucking?

 

[Teleplayer]

I am bumping this as my question is related. I noticed that DiMarzio sells a rather expensive pre-wired harness that does what this wiring does. Their diagram doesn't mention flipping a magnet though...is theirs still in phase and humbucking?

The Dimarzio one is hum-cancelling, but their description may not be correct unless you physically rotate the pickup. As it’s drawn you would get the Bridge slug coil and Neck screw coil in position 2, then vice-versa in position 4.

 

[Mincer]

The Dimarzio one is hum-cancelling, but their description may not be correct unless you physically rotate the pickup. As it’s drawn you would get the Bridge slug coil and Neck screw coil in position 2, then vice-versa in position 4.

That's what I thought- their description then, is just plain wrong.

 

[ehdwuld]

What does physical rotation of the pickup accomplish?

 

[Artie]

What does physical rotation of the pickup accomplish?

Nothing. It's purely cosmetic.

 

[Mincer]

Yeah, they don't mention in the diagram about rotating the pickup, but with their picture, the pickup looks the same either way.