lespaulj Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Hi! I'm trying to work out how you wire a 4 wire pickup to the 5 wire Gibson Quick Connect system. I understand the Gibson 5 wire coding is: NORTH START: RED NORTH FINISH: WHITE SOUTH START: BLACK SOUTH FINISH GREEN AND bare wire : GROUND But some replacement pickups only come with the 4 wires NORTH START + FINISH and SOUTH START + FINISH so no bare wire . So I would wire all the corresponding wires together but then I'm left with a ground wire on the Gibson 5 wire quick connect and no ground wire on the 4 wire. What would I do with that? Would the pickup still be grounded properly? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 (edited) Yes. If one wire of the humbucker wires didn't go to ground it would not work. It is grounded in the circuitry. Check your 5 wire set up and you will see 2 are grounded. The bare one and one other must be. Do you have a meter? See how one side of the winding goes to ground and one is hot. Your 4 and 5 wire hum gives you choice for coil splitting. http:// Edited March 4, 2020 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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