Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

[thehtm]

I have what may be a very basic question - I finally decided on a set of pickups and have A2 magnets for the bridge pickup and A5 for the middle (which is RW/RP) and neck. I was set to wire them standard, but have seen folks on the forum suggest wiring them in the following manner:

1. Use the middle rw/wp surfer as the neck pickup.
2. Use the neck surfer as the middle pickup.
3. Wire the bridge Texas Hot Custom reverse of normal: white ground. black hot and to the switch.

Does this just apply to the Texas Hots and Surfers, or does this apply to any set of A2s and A5s? If so, would folks suggest placing the middle rw/rp pickup in the neck position?

Thank you! I am really fairly new at this and appreciate all of the great feedback and suggestions. Thank you!

 

[cakire82]

Re: Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

If you were to do this and use a regular 5 way switching

1)neck
2)neck+middle
3)middle
4)bridge+middle
5)bridge

I believe positions 2 and 4 will still be hum canceling and will provide you nice clean (piezo like) sounds. So I can not see any difference other than using the middle in the neck and neck in the middle. What is the point?

individual pup in positions 1,3,5 will sound same

position 2 will still sound same

position 4 will sound different because instead of Texas Hot Bridge + Middle you will get
Texas Hot Bridge + Neck Surfer.

 

[cakire82]

Re: Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

3. Wire the bridge Texas Hot Custom reverse of normal: white ground. black hot and to the switch!

I also remember hermetico mentioning in one of my projects that this will sound noisier if wired this way as hot will be coming from core of the coil. Please correct me if I am mistaken on this one.

You will need to shield your guitar in order to avoid this.

 

[jafo]

Re: Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

I also remember hermetico mentioning in one of my projects that this will sound noisier if wired this way as hot will be coming from core of the coil. Please correct me if I am mistaken on this one.

You are not wrong.

 

[jafo]

Re: Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

I can't see any advantage in not wiring them the usual way (i.e., neck, rw/rp middle, and bridge as standard); but then, I'm not hip to all the hidden voodoo. Not all of it. lol

 

[jeremy]

Re: Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

I have what may be a very basic question - I finally decided on a set of pickups and have A2 magnets for the bridge pickup and A5 for the middle (which is RW/RP) and neck. I was set to wire them standard, but have seen folks on the forum suggest wiring them in the following manner:

1. Use the middle rw/wp surfer as the neck pickup.
2. Use the neck surfer as the middle pickup.
3. Wire the bridge Texas Hot Custom reverse of normal: white ground. black hot and to the switch.

Does this just apply to the Texas Hots and Surfers, or does this apply to any set of A2s and A5s? If so, would folks suggest placing the middle rw/rp pickup in the neck position?

Thank you! I am really fairly new at this and appreciate all of the great feedback and suggestions. Thank you!

the texas hots and surfers are opposite magnetic polarity of each other but wound the same direction. to get humcancelling in the notch positions with everything in phase you need to wire them up as above. it only applies to mixing the texas hot with non-texas hots. not other alnico 5 and alnico 2 pairings.

if you used a pair of ssl1 (a5) in the neck and middle with a twangbanger (a2) in the bridge you would not have to use the same wiring scheme.

 

[jafo]

Re: Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

Ah, didn't know that about those particular pups. Makes sense now!

 

[cakire82]

Re: Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

Ah, didn't know that about those particular pups. Makes sense now!

Me either. Thanks for the info Jeremy.

 

[jafo]

Re: Wiring a Texas Hot Bridge and Surfers (or any set of A2/A5)

Oops, didn't say ty. Sorry!