Those dimarzio wires

[wasp]

I know standard wiring for humbucker is green and bare to grd, black and white together and red to selector. But what do those wires represent actually? I mean what are those black or white for, etc.

 

[ShredCow]

You should google how a humbucker is made... that should explain it.

Different manufactors assign different colours to their wires lah but the design pretty much remains the same.

 

[wasp]

yeah the colour I know..almost got mixed up with seymour's ones. Do you have link about how the humbuckers are made?

 

[wasp]

Can I say that each black and white coloured wires actually belong to each of the coil in the humbucker? And If I need a single coil effect of a humbucker I can use any of the wire depending on which coil I want to use? Just a hantam bola guess.

 

[ShredCow]

Yeap... u got it!

 

[wasp]

I am a genius!! So what I need to do next is figure out which wire belongs to which coil..or you could help by just telling me the answer.. but what about the green wire? Can I say its identical to the red one and if I swap thier positions it doesn't make any difference?

 

[ShredCow]

uh.
Its relative to the brand. As what you said, Dimarzio and Duncans have different wire colour codes.

Well, you know there are different wirings for humbuckers. You do it differently, you end up wiht a split coil (or a dead coil) or the thing is in parallel... or out of phase... so yeah, find out the correct colour code.

www.guitarelectronics.com

 

[wasp]

Any combo can work? So lets say if I play around with the wiring it won't spoil the pup? I don't mean the extreme kind, but just around the selector.

I was looking at that webiste actually. alot of info but confusing too.

 

[ShredCow]

It wouldn't spoil a passive pup (techs, help, i might be wrong) but you might not get the sound you want if you anyhow wack.

 

[wasp]

If thats the case then I don't want to try as mine are actives. But kinda interesting to see what sound can be produced.