Here's what I got: Here's the wires that come out of it: I'm trying to wire it into a bass with a P style pickup also, so I'll have this pot setup: 1) P volume 2) Humbucker volume 3) tone I've got the P wired up, no problem. However, I can't identify the wires on the humbucker because I can't get the plastic cover off the pickup without breaking it. Here's the diagram I've been following, but it's using wires from a J pickup where I want the humbucker to be: Wiring diagram (PDF) Any ideas as to what wire goes where? Is there a way I can figure it out with a multimeter or something? Also, do I need to solder the shielding wires to the ground wire (whichever one that is)? I think that's how it was hooked up before but I can't remember.
black and white are normally a pair red and green are normally a pair your blue could be the opposite end of the white and the red the opposite end of the ground this looks like a MM so check the ohms from each wire to ground the parallel wiring resistance will be 4x more than the series join the red and white and measure blue to ground measure red to ground measure white to ground any pair which are the same are the single coils you may have to juxtaposition the join pair as blue and red to confirm its a trial and error operation and keep note of your readings the coils will be contra wound and opposite polarity and take care of hum anyway so wiring up is not a problem except in conjunction with the P if you get phase cancellation just reverse the wiring philosophy on the humbucker have fun
after a bit off thought treat the red as hot treat the blue as hot treat the white as the blues ground and the shield as the red ground.... the coils buck hum in series or parallel parallel is the normal way to wire a MM series blue hot red to white ground parallel blue hot red hot white ground ground and do feed back friend because i am learning at the same rate you are.
just made a little edit to the series wiring remembering s-d's convention red to white blue hot shield ground see i dont really know but that is what i would do
I wired it up in parallel as you described. I'm pretty sure that's how it was wired before. It sounds great. Thanks for your help.
