Mar 30, 2011

Humbucker coils splitting

This is easy know-how to make splitable humbucker guitar pickup from non splitable, that mean when your humbucker pickup don't have 4 or 5 wires, but only 2 or 3. 
 This is clasic schematic of 2 wires humbucker.
What I did is on this schematic.


And step by step instruction:
(1)This is my Wilkinson humbucker pickup. As you can see, It has got only 2 wires. 
(2)At first I took cover from It.


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(3)After that I took bottom cover (only copper plate). Be careffull It's connect to ground.
(4) On this picture you can see wires. Colour are same like in the schematic. Most important wire for me was the red one, because It connect coils together.
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(5) I cut red one.
(6) Next I connected red and ground (black) cable with pair cable and took front and back cover back.
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(7) I glued one-way switch to humbucker frame. I need only 2 conectors, but this was the smallest, which could be work. Ordinary has used potentiomer with switch like (8).
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(9) At the end I conected switch with pair wire and took pickup to frame. And that's all.
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1 comment:

  1. Hey, that's exactly what I was looking for.
    Where have you found this little switch?
    Can you explain picture 9? you have connected switch with which wire?

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