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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Bridge ground wire would go from your bridge to the pot you chose as your common ground point (probably your volume pot).
Thank you Koririgan. I have trouble soldering so many wires on the back of pots but if
5 solder points is what it takes then will give it a go...
You can solder several wires to the same point on the pot.
Perfect, thank you .
You'll have to supply one.
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.,.,.
I measured (multimeter) the ohms reversing the leads of the pickup and got the same reading? What does this mean?
As long as it didn't measure zero it means your pickup works. You are measuring resistance, and it doesn't matter which lead is where. The resistance is determined by the number of wire wraps on a particular pickup.
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.
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 ..
How can I be sure which lead is hot ? Is the hot or tip of the output jack itself determine ?
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