Suggestions for HHH Hotrails wiring options

[Artie]

What pickups are those? The colors look odd.

Nevermind. I see they're Wilkinson's.

 

[rmackowsky]

How does this look? Not quite done with all the labels yet. I wired the bridge and the neck to the same tone control, and the middle to its own.

 

[Artie]

That looks pretty good to me. I don't see any issues.

 

[rmackowsky]

Cool - thanks for all your help.

 

[Artie]

Cool - thanks for all your help.

Be sure to let us know how it came out. That's how we learn.

 

[rmackowsky]

Be sure to let us know how it came out. That's how we learn.

Will do. I hope to work on it this weekend.

 

[Artie]

I hope to work on it this weekend.

I say that about ALL my wiring jobs. :beerchug:

 

[rmackowsky]

Quick question - this diagram shows the hot wire being connected to the right lug on the pot instead of going straight to the blade switch. The middle lug on the pot then goes to the blade switch (black in my case). I wired it with the hot wire going directly to the blade switch. Which is correct?

Also, why is there no bare wire on these pickups?

Artie - you advise to connect yellow to ground. The original wire color diagram that came with the pickups (which was wrong as mentioned earlier) said that black was ground. Although they were wrong about which color wire was for which coil, I assume it is possible that they were correct that black was ground. How did you determine that I should connect yellow to ground?if black IS ground, I will have to rewire things I assume. How can tell with certainty which wire is ground since there is no bare wire exiting with the 4 colored wires?

 

[rmackowsky]

OK, just pulled back the casing for one of the pick ups, and it looks for certain that black is ground. So how does that change the wiring of the push/pull pot? I assume I wire black to ground and yellow is hot to the blade switch? Does everything still stay in the same place on the switch?