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Post subject: Strat neck pickup in Telecaster. Which wire to switch?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:01 pm
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I have a Seymour Duncan SSL1 (vintage staggered for strat model) that was made for a bridge or neck slot position.

If I put it in the neck position of my standard Telecaster, do I treat the black wire as the hot and the white as ground? I assume this is how to get hum cancelling when both pickups are on together.

Thanks for help!


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Post subject: Re: Strat neck pickup in Telecaster. Which wire to switch?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:12 am
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Hum cancelling will work if PUs are close together. On Tele they might too far.
Yes to your question ; black will be the hot


When two pickups are in-phase, they work together and reinforce each other. When they are out-of-phase, the two pickups work against one another; the resulting sound is simply the “leftovers” from the pickups’ cancellations. The closer the two pickups are, the greater the cancellations, meaning thinner sound and lesser volume. Thus, having the neck and bridge pickups wired out-of-phase is the best choice for this type of sound.

https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/ ... tocaster-1


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Post subject: Re: Strat neck pickup in Telecaster. Which wire to switch?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:41 am
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stratele52 wrote:
Hum cancelling will work if PUs are close together. On Tele they might too far.


Thanks!

Yeah I took a small fridge magnet and held it over the original neck and bridge pickup. The neck repelled the magnet held above, but the bridge attracted it. So I guess I should ideally purchase a Strat pickup made for the middle position cause the polarity would be like a Telecaster?

I guess I could use the SSL1 I got and see if I could deal with the hum.


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Post subject: Re: Strat neck pickup in Telecaster. Which wire to switch?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:52 am
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Polarity of the magnet is not the same thing as polarity of pickups .

Magnet polarity is north or south,
Pickup polarity is about the way of the winding.


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Post subject: Re: Strat neck pickup in Telecaster. Which wire to switch?
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 12:01 am
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stratele52 wrote:
Magnet polarity is north or south,
Pickup polarity is about the way of the winding.

Now, I'm absolutely no wiring wizard.
But, shouldn't that be:
Magnet and pickup polarity is north(-up) or south(-up),
Pickup phase is about the way of the winding.


On a SD SSL1 set, the middle pickup is RWRP, the bridge and neck pickups are 'normal' for the SD philosophy; that means neck/bridge are south-up, middle north-up - and (I believe...) SD winding is opposite to Fender.
A 'regular' Tele (as I understand it...) is north-up on both pickups.

So let's get back to basics: what model/pickups do you have?


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Post subject: Re: Strat neck pickup in Telecaster. Which wire to switch?
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:34 am
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jmattis wrote:
stratele52 wrote:
Magnet polarity is north or south,
Pickup polarity is about the way of the winding.

Now, I'm absolutely no wiring wizard.
But, shouldn't that be:
Magnet and pickup polarity is north(-up) or south(-up),
Pickup phase is about the way of the winding.


On a SD SSL1 set, the middle pickup is RWRP, the bridge and neck pickups are 'normal' for the SD philosophy; that means neck/bridge are south-up, middle north-up - and (I believe...) SD winding is opposite to Fender.
A 'regular' Tele (as I understand it...) is north-up on both pickups.

So let's get back to basics: what model/pickups do you have?


+1 for pickups phase


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