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Location: SoCal | I've just pulled a pickup out of my Viper. I'm curious. There is one red wire that goes to the selector switch. Then there are two black wires that both go to ground. I'm a small time thug, not an engineer. Can somebody explain how this wiring set up works? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | The wiring diagram that came with my 70's viper shows the pickups connected as you said, from the selector switch to ground, the rest of the wiring to the volume and tone control is on the other side of the switch. |
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Location: SoCal | Ok. The Viper has three wires, a red that's hot which goes to the selector switch, and two black that go to ground.
The Ovation humbucker has two wires, one green and one brown. Which is hot and which goes to ground? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Someone may know better than I, but.. I believe the "coil" wires (not the wire the it attached to the case) are just colored consistancy between pickups. As a pickup is a coil, not a transformer, the wiring only matters for phase.
So in the case of the brown and green... just make sure if you decide that brown is the ground, do it the same on both pickups. A phase switch would of course invert one of them. |
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Location: SoCal | Ok Miles. But I can't make sure it matches with the other pickup, because the bridge pu is still a Viper w/ three wires off it. Now what? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | when in doubt... try it. On a Viper they would always be parallel, so it's just not going to matter. By the way... you may have already figured this out.. but the Viper makes a good experiment guitar because you don't have to keep putting on and taking off the strings. You can just loosen them, then release the bridge and lift it off. I would of course put on new strings when you are done, but for experimenting with differnt wirings and such.. this "remove the bridge" method is easy. |
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Location: SoCal | I found this link with the wiring specs for a Deacan. Thought some of you might enjoy it.
http://www.doremi.co.uk/breadwinner/circuits.html |
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