Can some of you clever people help with this please?

[pr513]

Hello, I'm new to the forum and new to BKP's and really looking forward to getting some great tone.

I've just bought a Black Dog pick-up and I wanted to install it in my PRS CE (2005 model) in the bridge position.

To replace the original with exactly the same wiring I'm thinking I need to:

1) Wire the Black Lead in the same place as the old pick-up on the 5-way
2) Wire the White and Red lead together of the BD and wire that to the middle or "red" point of the 5-way
3) Wire the Green lead of the BD to the last or "white" point of the 5-way
4) Wire the braided earthing wire to ground.


Could someone please advise if this is correct please or if not how it should be done?

Thanks so much
Paul

[Transcend]

the red wire goes to the pickup selector and the black and bare go together on the back of a pot or a alternative grounding point.

green and white should be left taped off together unless coil splitting is needed.

[Transcend]

just re read your post  i dunno where the green and white go but red definitely goes to the tag on selector

[pr513]

Thanks very much for the info. to honest I am still a bit confused,

In the diagram here of the original wiring:

http://www.prsguitars.com/csc/schematics/5wayrotary95%2B.gif

Black is the start of the screw coil and goes to B on the switch
Red is the end of Screw Coil and start of Slug and goes to R on the Switch
White is the end of the slug and goes to W on the switch


If I try and copy that using the Black Dog:

1)Black is the start of the screw coil so goes to Black
2) White is the finish of the Screw coil and Red the start of the Slug so tape together and put to R on the switch

3) Green is the finish of the slug and so goes to W on the switch.

Is my logic wrong?

Thanks again

[PhilKing]

Your logic is wrong becase of the way humbuckers are wound.  Basically the ends of each coil are wired together and the connections are to both starts.

You need to wire it like this:

black is same as PRS black
white & green together where PRS red is
red where PRS white is

One other problem you may have is that one magnet has to be reversed to get the PRS split sounds in HB mode.  I think it is the neck pickup that has the reversed magnet, so if you are replacing the bridge you are ok.  If you got the pickup from BK and specified it was for a PRS with 5-way they should have made it correctly.

[pr513]

Thank you very much, I will try that and see how it sounds!

I' didn't specify it was for a PRS CE so I'll look out for that problem.

Thank you once again.

Paul

[pr513]

Just to advise that it sounds great- Thanks once again for the info

Are most humbuckers wired with their ends together and connections to both starts or does it depend?


I was assuming that the PRS PUP was wired in series with the end of Screw to beginning of slug, perhaps I'm wrong about that too?

[PhilKing]

They can be wired end to end or start to start (though I don't know if any are start to start).  Basically you need one coil to be RWRP to the other.  By having the magnet central with one pole to the screws and one to the slugs, the reverse polarity is achieved.  Then to make the coils go in different directions, the ends are connected.

[pr513]

That's really informative thank you-