Help! Silo 30 wiring question.

[B2D]

I'll call Pat Park in the morning if no one has a response to this by then, but I need some help.

I've just opened up my Silo 30 to change the bridge humbucker and the wiring has be somewhat confused.

The bridge bucker in the guitar has a single thick green wire coming out of it. Out of this is a black wire which appears to be the ground, a white wire attached to a switch terminal that appears to be hot, and a red wire that's just floating free.

It looks like the red wire was just cut and left that way, it doesn't look like it was attached to anything and broke off. I'm assuming that I'd attach hot to hot, ground to ground, and the red wire takes the place of the red/white on the Duncan that would normally be soldered together and taped off?

 

[mwinemil]

If the pickup is wired in series humbucking at all times you should only have the (+) and (-) outputs. The red/white solder together thing is how you take a 4 conductor wire and make it permanently wired in series humbucking (-) from north gets soldered to (+) of south (or vice versa). Anyway, from what you're describing I'd run the black to ground (volume pot) and I'd run the white to the switch. The only other option you have is to take the humbucker apart and have a closer look at how the multi-conductor wire is connected to the actual wires on the coils.

 

[patpark]

black to ground
white to switch
red should be wrapped in heatshrink and not soldered to anything.

if your installing a Duncan go with this:
Black to hot
green and bare to ground
white and red soldered together, ends covered in heat shrink

If your installing a Dimarzio
Red to hot
Green to ground
black and white soldered together, ends covered in heatshrink

If your close to Orange, give me a call and we can help with the install. we got an awesome set of tools.

 

[B2D]

Thanks, pat. I figured the way you described for the Duncan setup was the way to go, so I did that. Only problem now is that the pickup's output is really weak, like 1/2 the volume of the neck single, so I probably screwed up something in the Duncan when I changed the magnet. Great... pickup surgery time!

Thanks for the help on the stock wiring scheme though.

 

[patpark]

Thanks, pat. I figured the way you described for the Duncan setup was the way to go, so I did that. Only problem now is that the pickup's output is really weak, like 1/2 the volume of the neck single, so I probably screwed up something in the Duncan when I changed the magnet. Great... pickup surgery time!

Thanks for the help on the stock wiring scheme though.

If you have a multi meter, try checking the output while jiggling some of the pickup wires. See if the total output changes at all.

You might also need to remove the black cloth tape around the pickup and get to the ends of the wires and check for any exposed wire touching the baseplate shorting out. You could have one coil that is shorting out against the baseplate.

I have the black cloth tape if you need to rewrap it.

714-532-6655 after 8:00 am.

 

[B2D]

If you have a multi meter, try checking the output while jiggling some of the pickup wires. See if the total output changes at all.

You might also need to remove the black cloth tape around the pickup and get to the ends of the wires and check for any exposed wire touching the baseplate shorting out. You could have one coil that is shorting out against the baseplate.

I have the black cloth tape if you need to rewrap it.

714-532-6655 after 8:00 am.

I'm getting VERY short blasts of full power signal when I tap on the pickup... probably a loose/exposed wire. I've got some tape here, but thanks for the offer. I'll let you know how it works out.