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  • ID-ing PU's or at least Red and Blue wires...

    Chrome LP looking pickups with no markings.
    I repaired the shielded wire coming from the seriesed coils [inside PU cover], and I'd like to try them in parallel...
    There is a red and blue wire coming from each coil, I guessed the red's go together to output, and the blues both go to ground...it-'works', that is it clicks pretty loud on either side [adjustable pole piece coil and fixed pole coil], but I'm not sure whether they are in or out of phase or even which way I would prefer them to be.
    The blue wires appear to emanate from the same point from each coil [same with the red].
    The only 'telltale' of anykind other than the red/blue wires is the shielded wire being 2 conductor, grey, and 'small ish diameter, also the bobbin tops and bottoms are clear, also the tape I pulled from over the fixed poles seemed to make them more movable [ie ; vibratable...another piece of tape or more permanent measure of fixing them is being considered.
    Ibanez Super 70's maybe ? [wild guess].
    @@R@te the screw-pole coil seems to have had copious amounts of sweat or other added to it, mostly through the low E hole.
    I'm considering a rewind of that coil. The other matching PU's in pretty good condition, must have been situated next to the sweat-drip area, differences by sight are undetectable, but I suppse they were clipped short at the bottom plate out of the same guitar.

  • #2
    Seymour Duncan has a comprehensive listing of wiring diagrams including the color coding of various makers.

    http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...ic=color_codes

    hope this helps
    www.guitarforcepickups.com

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    • #3
      Brass baseplate held on with a brown glue? Cover full of wax? They sound like they may be old Epiphone pickups from what you have already described.
      sigpic Dyed in the wool

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      • #4
        ..

        Actually it looks wax free.
        some old humbuckers, at this point it'd be just as easy to stick them in a guitar and see what comes out !

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        • #5
          If you wire it up and it hums, they are in phase. It will also sound very thin.

          Humbucker coil are wired out-of-phase, because they have opposite magnetic polarity.
          It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. — Albert Einstein


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          • #6
            color code

            Hi Pete, if you finally figure out the manufacturer and the color code I would love to know what it is. I have a fairly extensive color code list on my webpage here: http://www.has-sound.com/info.htm and would like to add it.

            Thanks!
            -Stan
            ...just transferring wire from one spool to another
            Stan Hinesley Pickups
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