Splitting a humbucker

[Dedman]

I'm about to start another project, a JR-1 and have a mini humbucker to replace the P90 it comes with. Now, the mini hb has 5 wires (red, black, green and white as well as an earth), I presume this is for splitting ?

I read somewhere that instead of a switch, a pot could be used to dial between single and humbucker sounds, anyone done this?

As I don't intend to run a tone pot I will have an empty hole to mount a single/bucker dial.

[tonyw]

Many different wiring codes for many different manufacturers.

Heres a good read

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/cat...g_color_codes/

[tonyw]

Heres pretty much what i do to sort the wiring, i have a tester for magnet polarity

http://www.neighborhost.com/scrapbook/pickup-id.html

[wokkaboy]

Hey Dedman, I just finished my JR-1 yesterday. Are you planning to plug the tone pot hole if just running a volume pot ?
Get a push pull pot (can be double or single) will allow you to coil split the mini humbucker.

[Dedman]

Thanks Tony.

Yea Wokka, I will plug the empty hole if I don't use it for a splitter pot, I'm trying to keep it as minimalist as possible.

[pablopepper]

I used a rotary split on my EX-1. It's pretty cool to be able to slowly dial out one coil.

[WeirdBits]

This is using a pot to split the humbucker (Seymour Duncan wiring colours, obviously):


There's also the Red Rhodes circuit that incorporates a spin split with a tone control. Basically, at 10 you get a split to single coil, at ~8 it becomes full humbucker and then 8 -> 0 it works like a normal tone control on the humbucker.

[wokkaboy]

that was the other suggestion I was going to say Pabs, put a blend pot in for the coil splitting and leave the volume standard.
Wouldn't have to plug the tone pot hole then

EDIT Weirdy beat me by less than a minute !

[Dedman]

Thanks Weirdy, would that same diagram work with push pull? I would like to get it down to one control knob

[wokkaboy]

hey Dedman, Weirdy will have to modify the diagram for one push pull volume, not a very big change, the 2 coil split wires (red/white on that diagram) will connect to the push pull lugs