When i opened up the cavity of my washburn dime guitar, i noticed that the wiring was a little strange. The black and greens are both soldered together and taped off on both pickups and the red is used as the hot and white and bare are both grounded to the back of the pots. Why would someone do this? What is the purpose? Normally the red and white are soldered together and taped off. The black is hot and the green and bare are ground.
Seymour duncan wiring question
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Artie
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It's just a question of which coil comes first when in series. Since it puts out an AC signal, it's electrically identical. It would be like changing which battery came first in a 2 battery flashlight. No actual difference at all. But now, if you "ground" the black/green wire to split, you'd have the screw coil active instead of the stud coil. If you don't split, it makes no difference.
ThreeChordWonder
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Different pickup manufacturers use different colored wies in their wring program. The color of the insulation bears no relationship to the wires' function.
From what you posted it would seem that the black and green are the "middle" wires linking the two humbucker coils, the red is the hot and the white is the ground.
You can Google humbucker wiring color codes for a comprehensive look at how each pickup manufacturer colors their wires.
From what you posted it would seem that the black and green are the "middle" wires linking the two humbucker coils, the red is the hot and the white is the ground.
You can Google humbucker wiring color codes for a comprehensive look at how each pickup manufacturer colors their wires.
Artie
Peaveyologist
This is true. I assumed from the title that you had established that it's a Duncan pup. If it isn't, then the stud/screw thing may not be accurate. To know for sure, temporarily ground the black/green pair, and then do a "tap" test of each coil, (at low volume), to see which coil is active.
The pickups are both seymour duncan. Im not splitting coils. Its a two humbucker ML style washburn . 2 volume , one tone, 3 way toggle . No coils splitting at all . Im just trying to understand why the manufacturer used the red as hot and the white as ground and soldered the green and black together. Im womdering what the purpose of this would be. Does it change anything with the sound? The normal way of wiring a seymour duncan is to use the black as hot and green as ground and solder the white and red together.
Artie
Peaveyologist
It doesn't change anything. It can be done either way. Duncan picked one way for their diagrams, and that manufacturer picked the other. Again, imagine if you bought a flashlight with a pair of D cells, and took them out and put them back in, in reverse order. (Not reverse polarity.) It doesn't change anything.
