Humbucker Split Coil Wiring

For the split you need a four wire humbucker. A humbucker pickup contains two coils and with a simple modification we can use a switch to shut off one of the coils causing it to sound and act like a single coil pickup.

He replaced the stock pickups with a set of seymour duncan whole lotta humbucker pickups which have 4 conductor lead wires.

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Humbucker split coil wiring. I soldered this white access wire to the red series link connection then taped off the joint. Each coil has a hot and a ground and a determination must be made as to which is which before we get started. Its not hard to re attach the lead to the coil wire.

Essentially coil splitting involves connecting both leads of the slug coil to ground essentially cancelling out the coil. If you happen to break the lead wire while doing this dont panic. You cannot split a two wire without first modifying the pickup itself.

The sh 3 stagmag is a unique single coil in that it was specifically designed with coil splitting in mind. Lets take look at how a regular humbucker is wired. So he wanted me to install a pushpull volume pot for each pickup so he.

Follow the free instructions for our humbucker kit online. Coil splitting involves changing where your humbuckers leads go. Humbuckers usually have a bar magnet under the coils but here the pole pieces are the magnets alnico ii to be precise.

Its got two true single coils side by side on a baseplate.