Seymour Duncan BG-1400 wiring advice

[mike58]

Hi
A friend of mine is dropping in his Tele for a rewire, it has a BG-1400 bridge p/u fitted.
As this is a stacked p/u with high DC resistance would it be reasonable to use a higher value pot or as the stacked coils tend to fight each other and sound like a lower wind just use 250k.
I can’t find any SD info for recommended pot values.
I have seen folk use up to I Meg with this unit, but that was on an Esquire build, this wiring has to work with a standard single coil neck p/u as well.
Secondary point : as this is a 4 wire p/u I was going to wire it in coil-split mode when combining with neck single coil ( to improve balance) BUT as it’s a stacked single coil is this a good idea, do stacked coil splits work the same as humbuckers ? .
Thanks
Mike

 

[jeremy]

250k will be darker but either 250 or 500 would work, want a brighter tone, go 500k. what are you planning on using as a neck pup?

as far as splitting, when you turn off the bottom coil it will be brighter but also might be a bit louder actually. so different than a paf type pup in that way. its worth doing for sure. id use a normal three way and a p/p tone to split the bridge pup rather than a 4 way though