P'up swap

[MyFirstPRS]

I don't know if this had been posted or not -- however......I just bought a SE CU 24 30th Anniversary and it has the G&B p'ups in it......They are good ones however, I bought the US vers VB and HFS to put in it. The tech was kinda vague on the wire schematics for the G&B's. Whats hot and whats not? The coil tap I really don't care about for the time being, I just want to know what is the hot wire and whats ground? The guy told me that G&B have hot being black and ground being red, however, it seems not of that.Can someone tell me on the SE model, what is the hot wire and what grnd and I can temporarily place the US versions in my git fiddle until I buy a 5 way switch craft? I know whats hot and not for the US versions - just not the G&B's

 

[justmund]

Not trying to be smart, but it shouldn't matter. Just wire in the US pickups according to the instructions/schematics.

How many conductors are they? Are they new squabbins versions or the older, standard round bobbin ones?

 

[MyFirstPRS]

They are the new squabbins. These guys are normal 3 conductor and the Korean vb/hfs are 4 conductor. The only manufacturer that I know like the back of my hand are Dimarzios because that's all I have used since 1979. I am not familiar with PRS and these Korean 3 way blade box switches. Hopefully GC will be open today and I can go get the switchcraft 5 way.

 

[justmund]

3 conductor plus a shield on the squabbins? If so, this is a really good document:

http://www.prsguitars.com/csc/schematics/pickups.pdf

I'm not familiar with the switchcraft 5-way, but if it works like a regular 5-way you won't really get much more out of it that the PRS 3-way blade. The 3-way blade works like a regular 3-way, it just connects the correct "hot" to the circuit.

For switching like a core guitar, you'll need a PRS 5-way (from John Mann or similar), grab a US nut while you're there!

I just wired this style of pickup up so I know what the deal is, I went a bit silly and added 2 x mini-toggles (Dimarzio DPDT on-on-on) so I can select full humbucking, outside coil or inside coil), I do get a bit of volume loss in split operation since I can't do the resistor mod, but it's interesting having the different options.

Hope this helps!