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Guess this also qualifies as a Wiring Q but anyway…
Bought a pair of humbuckers and a True Coil (Single Coil) pickup from GFS to go into a Kramer Striker that’s setup for H/S/H pickups. My plan is to split the humbuckers with a push/pull tone pot/switch.
The “Single Coil” pickup is a four wire design. I doubt that it is coil tapped. My guess is that the second pair of wires is for the slug or dummy coil. Should I connect two of the wires, then wire this pickup like a regular (two wire) pickup? If I try to wire this pickup to be splitable, I’m not sure what this would accomplish or sound like.
If the above assumption is correct, which two wires should be connected? GFS uses Seymour Duncan wiring color code. For their humbuckers they show white (north end) connected to red (south end) with black (north start) to ground and green (south start) to positive.
Their single coils show white to positive, black to ground.
Should I just see which of the two combinations gives the highest DC resistance?
I will also check to see what GFS has to say but I wanted to tap into the knowledge here.
Thanks.
Bought a pair of humbuckers and a True Coil (Single Coil) pickup from GFS to go into a Kramer Striker that’s setup for H/S/H pickups. My plan is to split the humbuckers with a push/pull tone pot/switch.
The “Single Coil” pickup is a four wire design. I doubt that it is coil tapped. My guess is that the second pair of wires is for the slug or dummy coil. Should I connect two of the wires, then wire this pickup like a regular (two wire) pickup? If I try to wire this pickup to be splitable, I’m not sure what this would accomplish or sound like.
If the above assumption is correct, which two wires should be connected? GFS uses Seymour Duncan wiring color code. For their humbuckers they show white (north end) connected to red (south end) with black (north start) to ground and green (south start) to positive.
Their single coils show white to positive, black to ground.
Should I just see which of the two combinations gives the highest DC resistance?
I will also check to see what GFS has to say but I wanted to tap into the knowledge here.
Thanks.