What does this wiring do?

[orpheo]

thanks! I think I'll check both.

 

[orpheo]

The only place I remember seeing Outer Coils in Series is this diagram guitar electronics published over 20 years ago. It's odd they say its the PRS Rotary sounds from that time - this was before PRS moved to blades. I had access to the PRS line and service diagrams then. It was Inner Coils in Series 100%. PRS wiring has a lot more variants now that I'm not up to speed on.

I've only ever done Inner Coils in series on Vintage to mildly hotter PAF types under 9K. With clean to overdrive its a little crisper than both humbuckers in parallel the middle position, but still softer treble than if you had an actual series humbucker in the middle position.

There's plenty of threads here about Inner vs Outer splits and parallel combos and comments from Triple Shot users. The biggest thing is splitting the bridge HB to the outer coil can be weak and thin because its so close to the bridge itself.

Well here's the outer coil version. Enjoy!



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Just to make sure I get this one right; I see the output wire come out of 'F", in blue, and jump to G in green; that is correct?

I have a set of dimarzio's I'm using for this; I checked the magnet and in my set the mags are already swapped. I tested it with a polarity gauge. it is, indeed, N-S and N-S on the dimarzio's. I'll just rework the wires for dimarzio color codes and then fix this guitar. Can't wait to get this wired up. I'm using a middle pickup hooked up to a 3 way toggle so I get the 5 way, 5way+middle, or middle alone.

 

[switchman]

Just to make sure I get this one right; I see the output wire come out of 'F", in blue, and jump to G in green; that is correct?

Yes that's correct. I draw the switch jumpers a different color to remind myself what to wire first outside the guitar or off the pickguard.

Which DiMarzios? If you have a symmetric pickup like dual blade or dual hex poles then it's easy to rotate the whole pickup to get N-S and N-S. But (I think) they're usually still made as if Green and White are South "outer". I don't have a spare DiMarzio to check So you have to transpose the colors in pairs. I think this what you meant...

Good luck..You'll have 11 combos when done should be fun to play!

 

[orpheo]

Yes that's correct. I draw the switch jumpers a different color to remind myself what to wire first outside the guitar or off the pickguard.

Which DiMarzios? If you have a symmetric pickup like dual blade or dual hex poles then it's easy to rotate the whole pickup to get N-S and N-S. But (I think) they're usually still made as if Green and White are South "outer". I don't have a spare DiMarzio to check So you have to transpose the colors in pairs. I think this what you meant...

Good luck..You'll have 11 combos when done should be fun to play!

I've got the Illuminator set, an amazing set honestly! I had them in an Aristides with a Floyd Rose (well, aristides had them in an 060 with a Floyd that lay aorund in the shop that I played for like a year before it got sold, so I'm using those pickups in a 24-fret strat with an ash body, roasted maple neck, ebony board, floyd).

I meant that I think the polarity of the magnets are already correct as per your schematic compared to Duncans. I see that with Dimarzio all the time, that the mag is flipped compared to how Duncan has the magnet.

I've done a wiring similar to this, but with the humbuckers-full-in-series in position 2, with a split under a push pull pot and a 2 way toggle to engage or disenage the middle, with a Dimarzio Evo set. Very, very nice. Love that set. :bowdown:

And thanks for checking and confirming that jumper!

 

[switchman]

I meant that I think the polarity of the magnets are already correct as per your schematic compared to Duncans. I see that with Dimarzio all the time, that the mag is flipped compared to how Duncan has the magnet.

Interesting...Lately I've only used DiMarzio Humbuckers in the bridge of HSS guitars...So even on Neck pickups like the Illuminator with one screw and one slug coil they've made the slug coil South?

I know Petrucci guitars all have inner coils hum-canceling in the middle so it's needed for that.

Sidebar- I said earlier I thought JP wiring was inner coils in series but I read a bunch of diagrams again today and they're all parallel. Even a way old diagram I saved from the early interwebs with the Air Norton and Steve's Special from his Ibanez models is parallel... I must be remembering wrong :sad:

Regardless sounds like an excellent guitar. Enjoy!