Installing a SD STK-2J (n) - doesn't work

[Beammeup]

Hi,

I have just started to replace the stock J-pickup in my Aerodyne bass, but the new Pickup doesn't work

I have follow the std. instructions and it does not make a sound.

Anything to be specifically careful about here?

 

[Cadfael]

SD?

Green and bare wire to ground
Red wire to HOT
Black+White wire soldered together and isolated?

 

[Beammeup]

SD = Seymour Duncan

Thanks Cadfael - I'm trying it in 5 min.

 

[Beammeup]

SD?

Green and bare wire to ground
Red wire to HOT
Black+White wire soldered together and isolated?

Thank you very much - it worked like a charm!

This is the first time I have seen an error in the instructions included from SD

Red & White - solder together and taped
Black (HOT) - to lug #2 on volume pot
Green & Bare - to ground on top of pot​

Now I just need to correct the phase by switching green and black.

 

[Cadfael]

switching GREEN and RED ...
Black+White stay together to get the HB ...
Bare remains GND ...

 

[Beammeup]

switching GREEN and RED ...
Black+White stay together to get the HB ...
Bare remains GND ...

Arhh..... That's why it didn't work.

HB ???

 

[Cadfael]

HB = Humbucker ...
Black+White soldered together > series humbucker wiring ...
Black+White are the "inner coil ends" and have to stay as they are.
Red and Green are the "outer coil ends" which have to be switched (if Out-od-Phase).
The bare wire is always GND.

 

[Cadfael]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
SH************TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

For Seymour Duncan:
Green + Bare to GND
Black to HOT
Red+White soldered together.

If Out-of-phase with another PU
Black+Bare to GND
Green to HOT
Red+White soldered together.

SSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOORRRYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
I must have been stupid, drunken or blind ...

Green and Red build one coil.
Black and White build the other coil.

Red and White are the inner wires, Green and Black are the outer wires ...

 

[Beammeup]

Hi A,

Once again thank you for your quick reply's and help.

I followed your guidance pre-confusion posts and it work just as it should.

Final wiring:
Red and bare wire to ground
Green to HOT
Black+White wire soldered together and isolated?​

It sounds right - shouldn't it?

 

[Cadfael]

Greentings from Dortmund (D) to Denmark!

What you write now would be a DiMarzio wiring (my false wiring!!!).
When Red is GND and Green is HOT, only one of the two coils work!!!

See my Post #8 ...
This should be the correct wiring for Seymour Duncan ...
Red+White soldered together and isolated.
Green and black build the outer coil ends which have to be connected to GND and HOT ...

 

[Beammeup]

Greetings

If only one coil is working the sound would be pretty weak right?

 

[Beammeup]

Greetings

If only one coil is working the sound would be pretty weak right?

Is this true?

 

[Cadfael]

I don't know how the SD STK-2J is/are built ...
If it has stacked coils, the sound is weaker (but maybe not "pretty weak").
If the coils are side by side (like in a DiMarzio J) you will only hear two of the four strings ...

 

[Beammeup]

Then it sounds like I got it right

The instructions enclosed was not even close in being right...