Hi. I am putting in some Seymour Duncan pickups into my guitar Sunday. Whenever I have replaced pickups in this guitar in the past, I have just replicated the wiring scheme of what was already in there. It looks like this:
Red is hot. Black is ground. No idea what yellow is. White and green are North finish, South finish I guess.
It is 2 humbuckers with a 5 way switch set up for coil splitting.
What I want to know is, how is this wiring scheme different from this one which purports to do the same thing:
Is this just 2 ways to do the same thing? Or is there a qualitative difference?
Like I said, usually I just copy what is already there. But now that I look at it, there are all sorts of things I do not understand about how it is currently wired. Here is everything going to the volume pot:
What the heck is that thing on the left that reads 250 Vdc? Could that thing be messing up my tone?
Come to think of it, I almost never use my tone pot anyway. Should I take it out of the loop?
Should I just rip everything out and follow the Seymour Duncan diagram? Or if it is not broke, don't fix it?