Members burton4snow Posted September 6, 2015 Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 These are the two wiring diagrams I got. not sure which wires from Mighty Mite coincide with the wires on the Seymour Duncan diagram. Help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted September 6, 2015 Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 http://www.guitarelectronics.com/category/wiring_resources_guitar_wiring_diagrams.humbucker_wiring_color_codes/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 6, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 Sorry that didn't help at all. I think I just need someone to tell what wires are the same with two diagrams. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted September 6, 2015 Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 Generally, try the red and white soldered together, with the green for ground, and the black for hot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 6, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 So the green would be probable the same as the Blue in the MightyMite Wiring diagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted September 6, 2015 Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 Yes, in this case, blue is the ground, same as the green would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 6, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 I wire it all up and I get good sound except there is a huge buzzing that sounds like a grounding issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted September 6, 2015 Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 Check to see if everything is grounded. bare and green of the pickup to back of pot, back of pot to tone, ground of guitar to back of pot, and output to back of pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 6, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 6, 2015 Here is what it looks like after wiring it up http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k69/option4snow/IMG_0598.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted September 7, 2015 Members Share Posted September 7, 2015 Sorry that didn't help at all. I think I just need someone to tell what wires are the same with two diagrams. Thanks Ya, I thought mighty mite colors were there but they're not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted September 7, 2015 Members Share Posted September 7, 2015 Why is the red and blue wire connected? Red and white are connected together, blue goes to ground, black wire to the leg on the pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted September 7, 2015 Members Share Posted September 7, 2015 According to my sources, red and white are soldered together, blue is HOT.... and BLACK is GROUND. You are getting hum because your pickup isn't grounded Basically the coil is active but the shielding and pickup case are connected to black. When you grounded blue and made black hot, all of the shielding became this huge antenna transmitting RFI along with your signal to the amp. http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/a...1&d=1371239144 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 7, 2015 Why is the red and blue wire connected? Red and white are connected together' date=' blue goes to ground, black wire to the leg on the pot.[/quote'] It is was from the Mighty Mite wiring diagram. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k69/option4snow/6736d292-6afb-4668-9e65-77c461c138f9.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 7, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 7, 2015 According to my sources, red and white are soldered together, blue is HOT.... and BLACK is GROUND. You are getting hum because your pickup isn't grounded Basically the coil is active but the shielding and pickup case are connected to black. When you grounded blue and made black hot, all of the shielding became this huge antenna transmitting RFI along with your signal to the amp. http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/a...1&d=1371239144 This is a Mighty Mite Rail it has different colors http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k69/option4snow/6736d292-6afb-4668-9e65-77c461c138f9.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted September 7, 2015 Members Share Posted September 7, 2015 The wiring looks backwards to my eyes, but if it works, whatever. Still have the hum issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted September 7, 2015 Members Share Posted September 7, 2015 Well THAT diagram says that RED and BLUE need to be soldered together. Maybe try that? White solders to ground with the shielding. Black is hot. Oh I see from the pic that's how it is. Bad pot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarcapo Posted September 7, 2015 Members Share Posted September 7, 2015 Weird that they use non-standard colors. Didn't the pickup come with instructions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members r0bo01 Posted September 8, 2015 Members Share Posted September 8, 2015 the mighty mite diagram shows red as north start. black as north end (finish); blue as south start, white as south end (finish).since a series (full humbucker) connection is always - to + (in this case), i would think that the black (north finish, or -) and the white (south finish, or +) should be connected. this would leave red (north start, or +) as hot and blue (south start, or -) as ground. the way it looks is that you have it hooked up in parallel (+ to +, both - grounded)? some prefer this to split coil, as there is less hum than a split. but the split has a (slightly) grittier sound.i'm assuming (know what that does) that touching finger to string makes no difference. if so, prolly grounding issue. once fixed tho, still looks like you've wired parallel, according to mighty mite diagram you posted. here's a slide show that has some generalized info (check slide 6): http://www.slideshare.net/finzic/ser...bucker-pickups note: since each coil is wound in reverse to the other, the two finishes are the ones to be hooked up for a series coil connection. this still leaves your red & blue out in the cold as they are both starts of their coils, thus giving a parallel coil connection (see slide 7 from above link).for parallel then: connecting red/blue (start-start=hot) & black/white (finish-finish=ground) will leave give a parallel connection. for extra points: in the series hookup, grounding the white/black connection will give you the north coil only, aka "split"... shoulda looked at this one first... read the text, 1st paragraph, also, see diagram 3.http://www.1728.org/guitar8.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burton4snow Posted September 8, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 8, 2015 I took it to my repair guy. We grounded everything and put different pickups in and it turns out the Might Mites are just crazy noisy probable due to not shielding them. I will Never buy from them again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members burton4snow Posted September 9, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 9, 2015 I took it to my repair guy. We grounded everything and put different pickups in and it turns out the Might Mites are just crazy noisy probable due to not shielding them. I will Never buy from them again. My Bad it was a bad pot. Sorry Mighty Mite. They sound awesome and I put in 250k pots because it was all I had and it's not too dark to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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