Humbucker Split Wiring
This wiring splits the humbucker in half shunting one coil to ground and leaving the other coil engaged like a true single coil pickup.
Humbucker split wiring. Coil splitting humbucker wiring 1. Its not hard to re attach the lead to the coil wire. Guitar repairs coil splitting a humbucking pickup braided pickup wire if your guitars pickup has coaxial or vintage style single conductor cable with a braided shield above youre out of luck. Follow the free instructions for our humbucker kit online.
If you have a guitar with dual coil pickups or humbuckers you can easily modify the wiring to allow you to use just one of the coils on each pickup instead of both coils. In this mode the hum cancelling function is no longer active so youll get the hum and noise of any single coil pickup. For illustration we drew this out for you below. Humbucker strat tele bass and more.
I soldered this white access wire to the red series link connection then taped off the joint. The worlds largest selection of free guitar wiring diagrams. You can use coil splitting to turn a humbucker with two coils into a single coil by sending one of the coils to ground. Well here well talk about how to wire a humbucker pickup so that it can be split into a single coil pickup using a push pull pot.
Splitting to the south coil. If you happen to break the lead wire while doing this dont panic. Either live with it or buy replacement pickups with four conductor wiring from the likes of seymour duncan dimarzio or bare knuckle. Coil splitting is just one of the many things you can do with a push pull pot.