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Wiring pickguard

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I want ahead and put a humbucker i my strat, wired it for coil split with a push-pull pot from Dimarzio. But now i realize that with the pot pushed down only one coil is active and when i pull the pot up both are active. I wanted it the other way around.

I drew a nice picture here to show you.

Please help me, what should i do?
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Re: Wiring pickguard

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the black wire next to the green one is the bare ground wire.
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Just switch which lug on the push/pull switch is connected to ground. It looks like it's the bottom one, so move it to the top.

But according to your diagram, the ground wire looks like it connects to the white and black wires from the pickups, which would result in one coil always being off.

You didn't say what brand of pickups you were using. The color codes are different with each brand. Because they all hate eachother.
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its a dimarzio, so the wires are black, white, green, red & a bare ground wire.

I´ll try with just changing the pole on the switch that goes to ground.

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I just went to the dimarzio site. its right there. black and white get connected together and the pair gets connected to the switch. green is ground so it goes to the back of the pot or the ground lug of the jack. it really doesn't matter where you ground it. shorter run to ground is always best though. red is hot or signal or output. the only thing you need to do is use the other outside lug. keep the center where its at.
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