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Brendan Mitchell
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Melbourne Australia
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Posted 2 Jan 2010 12:29 am |
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Here we have a humbucker out of an Epiphone . My question is what wires do I use for a simple 2 wire connection ? |
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Roger Kelly
From:
Bristol,Tennessee
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Posted 2 Jan 2010 6:45 am
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Will this help you?
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2010 7:52 am
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great timing. I have two pickups from an old LesPaul. both humbuckers. I plan to use them in a home build lap steel. it's design is based on an Epiphone Zephyr design.
I have used the SeymorDuncan schemata for single coils and it works perfectly.
the diagram for the humbucker, as shown in the above post,will work fine. |
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Brendan Mitchell
From:
Melbourne Australia
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Posted 2 Jan 2010 3:52 pm
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| Thanks , I have heard that the colour coding is not universal . Does anyone know this particular pickup ? |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2010 5:41 am
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It depends entirely on the brand of pickup. Manufacturers seemingly use different color coding on purpose - you have to translate the wiring diagrams from one brand to another.
Here's one good translator:
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/category/wiringresources.wiring_faqs.pickup_color_codes/
Here's a list of color codes, by maker:
http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electronics/Color_codes.html
If you have a random, no-name pickup you can either use a multimeter to figure it out (whatever's not the north coil is the south coil) or just take a guess, based on what you thing it might be - my guess would be that Epiphone might follow Gibson's codes. You'll notice that the Gibson code is different from the Seymour Duncan diagram. But that looks like a not-Bill Lawrence bootleg PU, huh?  You may also be able to see the starting and finishing points of the various wires? This stuff comes up all the time at the Unofficial Warmoth Forum (guitar building types), here's a "master wiring list":
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=281.0
Since the red and black wires are already wired together, they probably ought to be and either the white or green wire is hot and the other one (and the outer shield wire) is ground. Or maybe not, there will be two ways it will make a noise (series and parallel) and they're not the same. Welcome to the nightmare....  |
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