about humbuck effect, please help

[buckthehum]

hello, im new here, im triyng to make a humbucker but i have a question.

To make the humbuck effect works, is it necessáry to wind a coil reverse wound? is this demanding? or the secret is in the way we join the cables of finish and start end of the wire from the coils?

many thanks

[Stan H]

You wind both coils counter-clockwise and connect the finishes.

[buckthehum]

You wind both coils counter-clockwise and connect the finishes.

thank you
i thought i had to wind one coil clockwise and the other the other coil oposite direction!

[Stan H]

Connecting the finishes of each coil will technically put them in "opposite" directions.

[buckthehum]

Connecting the finishes of each coil will technically put them in "opposite" directions.

now i understand many thanks

[buckthehum]

Hum i was thinking, that means the midle pickup of a set of 3 single coils doesn´t need to be reverse wound too?

[buckthehum]

what means in phase/out of phase?

hello

what means in phase/out of phase?
how do i know when a pickup is in phase or out of phase?

thank you

[David Schwab]

If a pickup is out-of-phase with another pickup, the tone will be very thin with almost no low end.

If you wire up a humbucker out-of-phase with itself (which is actually with the coils in phase) you will also get a very thin tone, and it wont be hum canceling.

What happens is the waveforms are opposite each other, and when added together and cancel out the common frequencies leaving the differences.

[David Schwab]

Hum i was thinking, that means the midle pickup of a set of 3 single coils doesn´t need to be reverse wound too?

No, it doesn't need to be reverse wound. It only needs to have an opposite magnet polarity and be wired in reverse.

You never need to wind a coil in reverse.

The way a humbucker works is the coils are out of phase, but the magnets are also opposite, so that brings the signal back in phase, but leaves the noise out-of-phase, so it cancels out.

[buckthehum]

If a pickup is out-of-phase with another pickup, the tone will be very thin with almost no low end.

If you wire up a humbucker out-of-phase with itself (which is actually with the coils in phase) you will also get a very thin tone, and it wont be hum canceling.

What happens is the waveforms are opposite each other, and when added together and cancel out the common frequencies leaving the differences.

thank you i begin to understand

[buckthehum]

No, it doesn't need to be reverse wound. It only needs to have an opposite magnet polarity and be wired in reverse.

You never need to wind a coil in reverse.

The way a humbucker works is the coils are out of phase, but the magnets are also opposite, so that brings the signal back in phase, but leaves the noise out-of-phase, so it cancels out.

now i see the light!

thanks a lot my friend