Lyric
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So I couldn’t take the stock pickups in my new PRS SE Custom 24 so I invested in new pickups and went with Seymour Duncan. So anyways I have the new pickups in and I believe everything is good but I need to double check with some of the pros here.
Seymour Duncan Color Codes:
All Seymour Duncan humbuckers with four-conductor hookup wires incorporate a standard wire color code.
GREEN = start of adjustable/south coil
RED = finish of adjustable/south coil
BLACK = start of stud/north coil
WHITE = finish of stud/north coil
For standard series humbucking operation on a 4-Conductor wired humbucker the White & Red wires are soldered together and taped; Green is ground and Black is Hot Output. The bare wire is always grounded.
PRS Color Codes
I’m not so sure.
I tried starting out wiring the Seymour Duncan’s using same color wiring the PRS pickups use but that was a quick fast no lol. So I had to run the wires according the Seymour Duncan and with what I thought was correct.
Pic of the Tone with push/pull
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186425503@N05/49407018718/in/album-72157712644732276/lightbox/
As you can see in the pic, PRS has Green/White of each Humbucker going to this. For Seymour Duncan I had to wire Red/White of the Seymour Duncan to these areas.
Pic of the 3 way blade
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186425503@N05/49407027838/in/album-72157712644732276/lightbox/
As you can see PRS had the Red wires of the Humbuckers going to the 3 way, instead with the Seymour Duncan’s I had to use the Green Wire of the Humbuckers had to go in place of the red wires.
In the pic you also see PRS used the black wire and the bare wire soldered to the 3 way blade
<<<<<<<——————— This is my area of help needed. Should the green wire on the Seymour Duncan’s be wire to the 3 way blade or should it be the black wire? I was think the Green wire on Seymour Duncan’s was ground. And does the other connections seem right? What’s ground wires and what’s what on the PRS SE Humbuckers? Should the SD green be ground or should the SD black be ground? And which should be soldered to the 3 way switch in place of the PRS red wires on the 3 way blade?
Current as it is,,,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186425503@N05/49407681307/in/album-72157712644732276/lightbox/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186425503@N05/49406997593/in/album-72157712644732276/lightbox/
Pickups look great I think and the guitar looks better. I also changed the knobs to the PRS Core knobs. I have the PRS ivory pickup rings, nut and 1040 MannMade Bridge coming tomorrow.
Thanks
Seymour Duncan Color Codes:
All Seymour Duncan humbuckers with four-conductor hookup wires incorporate a standard wire color code.
GREEN = start of adjustable/south coil
RED = finish of adjustable/south coil
BLACK = start of stud/north coil
WHITE = finish of stud/north coil
For standard series humbucking operation on a 4-Conductor wired humbucker the White & Red wires are soldered together and taped; Green is ground and Black is Hot Output. The bare wire is always grounded.
PRS Color Codes
I’m not so sure.
I tried starting out wiring the Seymour Duncan’s using same color wiring the PRS pickups use but that was a quick fast no lol. So I had to run the wires according the Seymour Duncan and with what I thought was correct.
Pic of the Tone with push/pull
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186425503@N05/49407018718/in/album-72157712644732276/lightbox/
As you can see in the pic, PRS has Green/White of each Humbucker going to this. For Seymour Duncan I had to wire Red/White of the Seymour Duncan to these areas.
Pic of the 3 way blade
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186425503@N05/49407027838/in/album-72157712644732276/lightbox/
As you can see PRS had the Red wires of the Humbuckers going to the 3 way, instead with the Seymour Duncan’s I had to use the Green Wire of the Humbuckers had to go in place of the red wires.
In the pic you also see PRS used the black wire and the bare wire soldered to the 3 way blade
<<<<<<<——————— This is my area of help needed. Should the green wire on the Seymour Duncan’s be wire to the 3 way blade or should it be the black wire? I was think the Green wire on Seymour Duncan’s was ground. And does the other connections seem right? What’s ground wires and what’s what on the PRS SE Humbuckers? Should the SD green be ground or should the SD black be ground? And which should be soldered to the 3 way switch in place of the PRS red wires on the 3 way blade?
Current as it is,,,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186425503@N05/49407681307/in/album-72157712644732276/lightbox/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186425503@N05/49406997593/in/album-72157712644732276/lightbox/
Pickups look great I think and the guitar looks better. I also changed the knobs to the PRS Core knobs. I have the PRS ivory pickup rings, nut and 1040 MannMade Bridge coming tomorrow.
Thanks
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