I have a humbucker. It has only two wires. White and bare wire.
im pretty sure the white is hot and the bare is earth. I’ve tested it with a basic output jack and I believe it’s wouldnt function if the wires are reversed?? Is it possible it would be reverse?...also all the different Wiring diagrams I see are all in relation to 4 or 5 wires.
The pickup is not single coil.
Id like to wire 1 volume 1 tone 1 jack. I see diagrams for piezos and Seymour Duncan’s diagrams (not the same)) .can anyone help with a simple diagram including the capacitor . Thank you
ps in all instances describe what’s earth and what’s hot please. If a pic helps please let me know .
both wires come out of the pickup with one red wire ...but inside the red wire (covering of some sort) is the white and bare wire
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No vol or tone until I know for sure which is the hot...just want to hook up a jack /pup only....the buzz sounds louder when the white lead is hooked up to the tip of the jack and the bare wire to the opposite.
in this pic I found the red wire is where my bare wire is and my white wire is where the black wire is. It sounds cleaner and less buzz ...does this mean the hot is the bare wire on my humbucker? When reversed the hum is louder but there’s signal...taking all pots out of the equation
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The white wire is your hot wire and the bare wire is ground and provides shielding for the hot wire.
The shielding wire is also attached to the pickup's metal cover, so reversal of the wires will not work unless the connection to the cover is cut and a separate cover ground wire is run to ground. Or the pickup's ground wire is separated from the shield wire and add a new wire to that for hot - white becomes ground in those scenario's.
Volume and tone pots, switches, bridge or stop tail piece and jack must have a ground connection to stop unwanted noise. Pickup to jack without strings being grounded will cause some noise.
Thank you for the explanation. It was just odd that all buzzing stopped when the hot (white) was switched to the sleeve. Thank you!
Check all your solder joints to make sure they are good too.
Also check for little beads of solder that may have dropped into something it shouldn't have and causing a short. I had that happen once and it was very aggravating.
a bit out of focus pic
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How can I be sure which lead is hot ? Is the hot or tip of the output jack itself determine ?
So after switching the white lead to the output jack’s ground side and the bare wire to the hot side of the output jack the humbucker sounds less noisy. Is this possible? Just an output jack/pup no knobs. You’d think the white wire lead is hot and bare ground ?? Extremely puzzling ..
Thank you all kindly for the help
A Mag pickup is just a magnet with wire wrapped around it. Just like the electromagnet you made in primary school by wrapping wire around a bolt, you can connect the wires either way and it works.
Korrigan is spot on. By your description the white wire is positive or "hot" and the bare wire is negative / ground., and it would work wired in reverse, but it might sound a little different.,test it with a meter to make sure you don't have a open in the coil.,.,.
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