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deg0ey

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Wiring Single coils...
« on: July 28, 2006, 06:02:13 PM »
So, if you wire a single coil into your guitar, does it matter which way round you wire it?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm putting a switch into my guitar that allows switching from series to parallel between two single coil pickups, but the only way i could see to wire it meant that the hot wire of one was wired to ground, and the hot wire of the other into the switch, with the wires that would usually go to ground connected together (and not grounded).

If I've remembered correctly, this would mean that they would be out of phase: but because they're both out of phase, they're back in phase again - right?
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Re: Wiring Single coils...
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2006, 06:14:23 PM »
Quote from: deg0ey
but because they're both out of phase, they're back in phase again - right?


don't have a clue about the rest but this part sounds familiar, as if they are both 'reversed' so to speak, then it's like just turning the entire guitar round


i think
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