3-conductor wire humbucker

9am53 · 28th October 2006, 02:58 AM

Hi all, I recently refinished my takamine gx-100t in sherwood green, and it looks great, I replaced the bridge pup with a Bill Lawrence L500 XL, and I planned on reusing the neck pup. My problem is that I didnt forsee having a problem re-wiring it so I didnt take any pics...there are 3 lead wires...an unshielded wire within the main shield, and a white and red one...but I cant find anywhere online what the proper wiring for this is, does anyone have any ideas?
thanks

vicelord · 28th October 2006, 09:07 AM

hello
if you have a multimeter you could mesure between the unshilded whire and 1st the red and 2nd the white

the larger reading on the multimeter will be that of the full pick-up.

sorry for my bad english

Regards

DoomPixie · 8th November 2006, 11:45 AM

Iv'e seen this before in a dew older humbuckers, It has both coils wired in series and center tapped, center tap is the unshielded wire.you can figure out which of the other wires goes to which half pretty easily aswell.. wire one half into an amp and simply tap the top set of poles and then the bottom set with something metal, the one that makes a tapping sound in the speaker is the one you wired up.. probably not the most scientific way to do it but it has worked fine for me in the past, just make sure the amp isnt turned up too loud..lol.
Owen

kafka007 · 21st November 2006, 04:03 PM

I don't know, but you may be able to find the answer on Bill's forum.

28th October 2006, 02:58 AM	#1
9am53 diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Ontario	3-conductor wire humbucker Hi all, I recently refinished my takamine gx-100t in sherwood green, and it looks great, I replaced the bridge pup with a Bill Lawrence L500 XL, and I planned on reusing the neck pup. My problem is that I didnt forsee having a problem re-wiring it so I didnt take any pics...there are 3 lead wires...an unshielded wire within the main shield, and a white and red one...but I cant find anywhere online what the proper wiring for this is, does anyone have any ideas? thanks __________________ Guitar is Good

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28th October 2006, 09:07 AM	#2
vicelord diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2006	hello if you have a multimeter you could mesure between the unshilded whire and 1st the red and 2nd the white the larger reading on the multimeter will be that of the full pick-up. sorry for my bad english Regards

8th November 2006, 11:45 AM	#3
DoomPixie diyAudio Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Aberystwyth / Llanelli (wales)	Iv'e seen this before in a dew older humbuckers, It has both coils wired in series and center tapped, center tap is the unshielded wire.you can figure out which of the other wires goes to which half pretty easily aswell.. wire one half into an amp and simply tap the top set of poles and then the bottom set with something metal, the one that makes a tapping sound in the speaker is the one you wired up.. probably not the most scientific way to do it but it has worked fine for me in the past, just make sure the amp isnt turned up too loud..lol. Owen

21st November 2006, 04:03 PM	#4
kafka007 diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2006	I don't know, but you may be able to find the answer on Bill's forum.

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