Where do i connect new pickups too?

infernouk

Hey guys,

Im a bit stuck, i took my old pickups out my epi LP, and have gone to re-solder my new ones. 

However I cant remember where the original ones connected too to connect up the new ones! 

Here is an image of the wiring, im not sure which are tone and which are the volumes i need to connect the black and green wires too

Can anyone help with this? I tried some wiring diagrams but i dont know which pot is which! 

Handsome_Chris

If the top two pots are the volume pots. 

The front two pots ,nearest the headstock are for the neck pickup.

Edit:  That is if someone hasn't had a go at this before and fkd the thing right up  

Alegree

The ones on the left should be the volumes, the ones on the right should be the tones. You can tell which are tones by the capacitors (the green components).

The humbucker wiring depends on which wiring scheme the manufacturer follows.

infernouk

Handsome_Chris said:

If the top two pots are the volume pots. 

The front two pots ,nearest the headstock are for the neck pickup.

Edit:  That is if someone hasn't had a go at this before and fkd the thing right up  

It was stock so it wont have changed

So the ones without the green tag bits are the volume and the green ones are tones?

Then the top left (with the yellow wire over it in the image) is the bridge, and the bottom left is the neck? 

And i just need to solder the blacks into the correct dials and their earths onto the top of the pot?

FatPete

Does this help?

infernouk

FatPete said:

Does this help?

cheers confirms what i previously posted, ok thanks ill give this a try!

ICBM

In the pic - 

Top is neck volume
Left is bridge volume
Right is neck tone
Bottom is bridge tone

On each pickup, the green (and bare - important) wires are soldered to the backs of the volume pots, and the black wires to the terminal of each volume pot where the wire to the tone control is also connected. (The '7 o'clock' position if you look at the pot with the terminals at the bottom.)

infernouk

ICBM said:

In the pic - 

Top is neck volume
Left is bridge volume
Right is neck tone
Bottom is bridge tone

On each pickup, the green (and bare - important) wires are soldered to the backs of the volume pots, and the black wires to the terminal of each volume pot where the wire to the tone control is also connected. (The '7 o'clock' position if you look at the pot with the terminals at the bottom.)

so its actually not the same as the image above? if i assume by 'top' you mean top left?

ICBM

infernouk said:

so its actually not the same as the image above? if i assume by 'top' you mean top left?

If you look at your pic it should be obvious what I mean .

FatPete

infernouk

FatPete said:

ah thanks mate, so ive attempted to wire the bridge in to the bridge volume but im getting no sound from the pickup when testing.

I paired the green and plain and grounded them to the top, then attached the black to the little circular connector on the pot, any ideas here?

FatPete

The red and white need to be soldered together and taped up so they can't short to anything.

FatPete

What brand are the new pickups?

infernouk

FatPete said:

What brand are the new pickups?

seymour duncans, so the red and white acutally need to be paired? i assumed they were just unused

FatPete

infernouk said:

FatPete said:

What brand are the new pickups?

seymour duncans, so the red and white acutally need to be paired? i assumed they were just unused

They link the 2 coils together, so it won't work if they're not joined.

FatPete

I can't tell from your pic where you've connected the black wire. It needs to be the most clockwise tag looking from the back - the one that isn't earthed to the back of the pot.

infernouk

FatPete said:

I can't tell from your pic where you've connected the black wire. It needs to be the most clockwise tag looking from the back - the one that isn't earthed to the back of the pot.

The black i just connected to the tag that has a little circle hole in it that nothing else was connected to, at the top of that little brown pcb board you see in the pic in the shadow

FatPete

It needs to be the leftmost tag as in your last pic - it probably already has a wire attached going to the tone control. The middle tag is the output to the switch and the rightmost should be soldered to the pot casing.

infernouk

FatPete said:

It needs to be the leftmost tag as in your last pic - it probably already has a wire attached going to the tone control. The middle tag is the output to the switch and the rightmost should be soldered to the pot casing.

ah perhaps thats the issue, i just tried this with the red and white linked and still nothing so perhaps im on the wrong tag...here is a better pic

FatPete

Thanks, that's a more useful pic. the black needs to be on the same lug as the white. Make sure there's still a solder joint to the casing when you remove the black wire.

infernouk

FatPete said:

Thanks, that's a more useful pic. the black needs to be on the same lug as the white. Make sure there's still a solder joint to the casing when you remove the black wire.

Sorted, makes some noise now, oddly my pickup selector is now upside down so my treble position is the bridge pickup...?