Three wire single coils

[tlhamon]

Need some help here.

I think I know the answer, but want some feedback before I begin soldering.

I have a single coil pickup with a black ground, a white and a red lead.
I ASSUME the red is the hot and the white is either a coil tap or is used to reverse phase.
I'm guessing that as long as I wire the white to ground on both pickups that I will be in normal full single coil mode, but I may be wrong.
Any help?
Thanks.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Three wire single coils

do you have a multi meter? what brand are these pups?

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Three wire single coils

It is most likely a tapping lead.

Great feature IMO. I wish more pickups (single coil and humbucking) had taps, as opposed to the usual splits that you can do with HBs.

The old DiMarzio SDS-1s had them; I wish the current versions still did.

Traditionally, white is hot and black is ground with single coil pickups (in which case red is the tap)...but other codes have been used. DiMarzio used this scheme, though (b/w = normal leads, red = tap).

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Three wire single coils

Depends on the pup. If it is a SD noiseless single coil the red wire is a split. If grounded, it will split to the upper coil.