Need help with humbucker wiring

[shaid]

Hi, I have a Telecaster with two stacked humbuckers. The pickups have 4 wires plus a ground. Red, white, black, green. The yellow wire you see there is just an extension for the black neck wire. I bought a Serial Killer pre-wired plate. Can be seen here jerseyshoreguitargarage.com/store.php#!/Serial-Killer-Telecaster-pre-wired-control-plate/p/35442310/category=9339127 Has a 5 way switch. 1=bridge, 2=bridge/neck serial, 3=bridge/neck parallel, 4=bridge/neck half out of phase, 5=neck pickup.

These are pictures of the switch, hope they help. It shows with black letters where two of the wires bridge and neck go, one at each end of the switch. But I don't know where I would attach the others to get all the benefits.

Help would be very much appreciated.

[thetragichero]

hello and welcome to the nutz house!

who makes your pickups? here's a chart for the color codes of various manufacturers



based on your post you are just looking to hook your humbuckers up to the harness you orchard, correct?
in that case the two wires that are the series link should have their ends twisted and soldered together and then heat shrink around it to prevent it from contacting anything
the hot output goes to the switch and the ground along with the shield go to ground (either your star ground point or the back of a pot)

[shaid]

Thank you for your reply. I didn't put these pickups in, I got the guitar from a friend. He said they are Alnico pickups. I have it hooked up the way you explained, but hooked up this way they aren't in serial or parallel or out of phase in the switch positions. If they are they don't sound any different. Shouldn't I have to hook the other wires to the switch positions to obtain the sounds? I contacted the customer support but they don't reply.

[thetragichero]

i took a gander at the website and it appears the switch settings are for system series/parallel/half out of phase (as in the connection between both pickups) as opposed to intrapickup series/parallel/half out of phase (as in the connection between coils in each individual pickup)
the re seem to be options for "shredder" (my guess is similar tho prs 5-way switching) along with push/pull options for humbuckers, but short of a new harness (which is an expensive proposition buying a new one, something contrary to general Nutz culture) the only way to add intrapickup series/parallel would be to add additional switching (on a standard tele that means replacing one or both pots with push/pull pots that hopefully will fit in the limited cavity depth that you have to work with)
I'd/we'd be glad to help if that is your goal but my assumption is that you were looking for ways to accomplish this with your existing harness intact

[shaid]

Thank you for your reply. Ahh ok, I see what you mean, I'll just use it on my other tele with standard pickups then. Thanks again

[thetragichero]

to be honest, if it were made for single coils with 250k pots it would be rather dull sounding with the humbuckers anyway
i could definitely get option paralysis with all the different options that fella has for the harness... sorta like i always end up placing a second parts order to obtain the things i forgot in the first one 😵

[newey]

I can't tell much from the pictures. Did they provide a wiring diagram when you bought it?

This thing was pre-wired, right? The only thing you did was wire the "hot" leads of the pickups to the switch (and, presumably, grounded the ground wires)?

It is unclear from your post whether you are getting any sound in any positions. Does this work at all? If we are going to help to troubleshoot this thing, for starters, we will need you to perform the "tap test" on each coil in each switch setting to see which coils are active where.

If you have access to a multimeter, that may also be necessary at some point.