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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: MiloF on August 18, 2010, 02:41:32 PM

Title: First time swapping pickup need help!
Post by: MiloF on August 18, 2010, 02:41:32 PM

Hey guys,

So this is my first pickup change Ive done myself. Im fully confident in my soldering skills but I'm getting confused with a few things.

Its going into an Ibanez RG so tone, volume and 5 switch.
Im putting in a Miracle Man 4 conductor.

HSH configuration

What I do get is -

Red goes to pot tag
Black goes to the back of tone? pot as a grounding

What I'm battling with -

Which tag am I soldering it to for the bridge position
On the FAQs of BKP it mentioned where the red, black, white and green go. But theres a bare wire.
Where does this one go?

And thats all.

Which tag and bare wire placement.

Thanks in advance guys.

Title: Re: First time swapping pickup need help!
Post by: Twinfan on August 18, 2010, 05:27:54 PM

Bare wire goes to the back of the pot with the black wire.

The red goes to the 5-way switch
The green and white go together, also to the five way switch

Basically, they attach where the old wires did!

Title: Re: First time swapping pickup need help!
Post by: MiloF on August 19, 2010, 02:41:50 AM

The green and white same position as where the red is?
I thought theyre just left alone soldered together because they came heat shrinked together

Title: Re: First time swapping pickup need help!
Post by: Philly Q on August 19, 2010, 08:23:56 AM

Did your Ibanez have a coil-split in the bridge+middle position?  If it did, you'll need those Green+White wires.  If not, they can stay taped together. 

If it did have a split, the Ibanez bridge pickup probably has three wires (rather than 4 like the BKP), two of which are connected to the switch and one to ground.   

I don't know what colour codes Ibanez use - they seem to vary a lot - but if it does have two wires connected to the switch, the Red from the BKP should connect to one of those points, the Green+White should connect to the other.

Title: Re: First time swapping pickup need help!
Post by: Twinfan on August 19, 2010, 09:34:09 AM

The pickup wire colours will be different, but you should be able to work it out from this wiring diagram and this colour decoder:

* Red on BKP and Red on Ibanez 'bucker go to the same place
* Bare and blue on the Ibanez swap to bare and black on the BKP
* Black and white on the Ibanez 'bucker are replaced by green and white on the BKP

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/category/wiring_resources_guitar_wiring_diagrams.humbucker_wiring_color_codes/

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