I Just don't get it...

[FunkyMan]

Please explain to me as if i'm a child

What means those Series/Paralel modes in a MM humbucker?

i mean, i can clearly recognize the tone difference, but how it work? it's something like this??

[line6man]

Series and parallel refer to the configuration of the two coils.

Series:


Parallel:

[FunkyMan]

Thanks but that's the thing, I mean i just need a "less technical explanation" hehe i saw that ilustration already in google!

[maturanesa]

The pickup have two coils inside the plastic cover that cross the pickup vertically (like your graph "parallel") . In series mode, the two coils work together (coil 1 + coil 2), in parallel mode they work each for their own (coil 1 & coil 2). In some way your graph is ok. But the metallic polepieces are not the coils, so the graph 1 is a little confuse.

[line6man]

[walterw]

totally non-scientific, but here's how i think of the difference (assuming a humbucking pair of coils):

think of parallel as "two single coil sounds running at the same time"; it's about as loud as one single coil, but kills the hum.

think of series as "adding" the sound of the two coils together, creating a louder sound (and killing the hum). it typically loses high end in the process, so you get more bottom and less top.

[Shoewreck]

Originally Posted by FunkyMan

The drawing depicts differences between parallel and perpendicular wiring, not parallel and series, and you messed it.