HELP! Magnet wiring

[Pedro]

I have a PRS Custom 24 with the 5 way rotary switch. I ordered (and received) by mistake the bridge pickup with the magnet reversed instead of the neck magnet. When i installed them, they sounded wierd and out of phase. I fliped the wires in the neck pickup (black and red) and soldered again, and now they sound awesome. What happened? I wonder if they could sound even better and if there is something wrong?

[Kiichi]

First of all welcome to the forum! =)
Now as usual on monday nights (my only day off of the week) I had a few so be carefull with my advice. Also I am no electronics expert by a long shot ;)
But if I recall correctly reverse magnets donīt have anything to do with the phase. They do affect splits wirings though. The reverse polarity decides if a split is hum cancelling or full range.

What I imagine you might have done is wire the PUs wrongly assuming the wrong wiring colour code (possebly resulting in the PUs actually being out of phase). Reversing the wires as you did actually lead to it being correct.


Forgive me if this is totally wrong, I will be rightfully humbled by the morrow  by more knowledable forum members.^^

[Pedro]

Thanks for the reply! =)

I had a pair of Seymour Duncanīs installed before the Bare Knuckles (Rebel Yells). When i installed them, ive read on Seymour Duncan website that i needed to reverse the bridge magnet and follow the wiring diagram, and it was perfect, worked 100%. Diagram: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=prs_mod_1 When i placed the order on BKP website, i asked for the reversed magnet on the bridge pickup. When i got the pups and installed them, i just did it following Seymour Duncanīs wiring diagram with equivalent color codes from that chart https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/downloads/schematics/general/humbuckers/humbucker_colour_code_conversion_chart.pdf What happened was that they sounded out of phase and very weird. That happened before when i had my prior Seymour Duncan installed without the magnet reversed (at that time i removed the screws and opened the neck pickup and reversed the magnet by hand. Canīt do it on BKP since itīs glued, i tried). What i did to try to solve the problem was swap the black and red wires on the Bare Knuckle neck pickup and it worked, the guitar sounded very good. I donīt know if thats the stock sound or what happened, but it sounds really good. I would really like to know if there is something wrong and if the sound could be better?
Ive read on PRS website that i needed the neck pickup to have the magnet reversed, not the bridge. Since i got the bridge reversed instead of the neck, i fliped the red and black wires by instinct, and it worked. But i donīt know how and would really like to hear from someone familiar with PRS Rotary Switch and itīs complex inside wiring