Pickup phase question

[albacore]

Another question prompted by my MIK Vector project.

The Duncan Designed pups have 4 wires, and the green of each is going to the tag of the volume pots. Does this mean that they are wired in phase, or is there a difference in the internals of neck and bridge pups which makes using the same wire as hot work for out of phase?

(I am assuming the Vector would be wired OOP like the Sunbursts, no?)

My expectation was the black would be used as hot for one pup, and the green hot for the other. If this is true, does it make any difference which pup uses the green etc? (The red and whites are joined.)

Cheers, Matt

[velorush]

Is the black connected to ground, then? I suppose it would have to be.

Here's a color code chart. If we assume the Duncan Design pickups carry the Duncan convention (and it appears they do), it sounds like they are wired up in the opposite direction Duncan recommends for their regular pickups. So long as both are wired that way, I'd say it is of no consequence.

To your question, if the greens of both pickups are wired to the Volume pot, they are wired in phase.

ETA: if you wanted to experiment with (electrically) out of phase, you'd simply flip the terminating wires of ONE of the pickups: black to Volume pot, green to ground. If you like it, you could always rig up a phase switch on a push-pull pot and have both options.

[albacore]

Yes, the black is going to ground.

I had heard that out of phase was typical for hamer humbucker guitars, which is why I'm asking.

Matt