elmington
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Post by elmington on Oct 17, 2006 20:08:07 GMT -5
Guys I need a bit of help here im wiring up a telecaster with a hotrail at the bride, im gonna use a 5 way selector.
Hoping to get these configs not any particular order here
Bridge Full Bridge Full+Neck Neck Neck+Bridge Half Bridge Half
But I'm a little confused as to how the pickup works. When I saw that it had fours wire it confused me. I thought it would just have 3 wires, ground and 2 hots (one for each half). So I could basically run my 2wires into the switch, along with the hot of the bridge pickup and that would be that. So I need a bit of help knowing how the hotrail works. Below are my 2 theories
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Green and Bare=Earth Black=Full output Red and white=when brought into the circuit (or active) halfs the output of the humbucker
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Outer and Green obviously= Earth wires Black=output of one half Red and White=output of one half
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png123
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Post by png123 on Oct 18, 2006 7:06:52 GMT -5
Check; www.seymourduncan.comfor some ideas or some other site from where you bought the hotrails, for a complete diagram
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Channelman
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Post by Channelman on Oct 18, 2006 10:42:36 GMT -5
A quick look (to me) says there are two coils. One from Green to Red and the other from White to Black. I think that the normal (in series) humbucker connection would be:- Green (Outer) to ground White connected to Red (and isolated) Live Output from Black. CM
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Post by UnklMickey on Oct 18, 2006 17:37:39 GMT -5
looks like these guys have (almost) all the bases covered.
not much left to say, 'cept:
Welcome to GuitarNuts2, Elmington.
cheers,
unk
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guitarmole
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Post by guitarmole on Oct 20, 2006 21:21:50 GMT -5
A quick look (to me) says there are two coils. One from Green to Red and the other from White to Black. I think that the normal (in series) humbucker connection would be:- Green (Outer) to ground White connected to Red (and isolated) Live Output from Black. CM I second that. I just installed a hotrail myself with the coils operating in series as the S in an H-S-H configuration. White and red tied together, green is signal ground, positive output from black, and there is a bare tinned wire which is a drain, along with a foil shield wrap. If you want to run it in parallel, then the red/green belongs to one pickup, where red is considered positive signal. On the white/black set, the black is considered positive signal. I believe this is universal for Seymour Duncans. The red/green pair of wires (if wiring for coil-tap scheme) applies to the coil defining that particular position's role. For example, the red/green wires on a neck humbucker correspond to the single coil closest to the neck (as opposed to farthest away). For bridges, the red/green wire pair correspond to the single coil closest to the bridge. I just installed a Jazz neck, JB bridge, and Hotrail middle coil (designated bridge) and they all used this wiring scheme. That way when you coil-tap a neck, you get the "neckiest" sound, and you get the "bridgeiest" sound when coil-tapping a bridge pickup. I'm not sure what it is for middle coil positions if you get a 3-pc strat hotrails set. My hotrail was for a bridge.
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Post by UnklMickey on Oct 24, 2006 13:36:56 GMT -5
...I believe this is universal for Seymour Duncans. ... it is.
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