12056 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 (edited) http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/12056/DCP_1320.jpg http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/12056/DCP_1317.jpg (the writing on the back says "MADE IN JAPAN") awhile ago i got these pickups off ebay. the guy said they came out of an ibanez prestige. they came in dimarzio boxing, along with the wiring instructins, so im not sure if they are dimarzios, or some stock brand. so im just trying to verify that my wiring diagrams are correct. (http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/color_codes.html dimarzio, and http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schem...h_1v_1t_3w.html with the dimarzio codes substitued) thanks for the help. Edited March 25, 2007 by 12056 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 If they said "Made in Japan", they're probably the IBZ pickups made overseas for Ibanez guitars using DiMarzio designs. Hope you didn't pay too much for 'em, stock DiMarzios that are assembled in New York are only about $60 apiece new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12056 Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 its ok if theyre not actual dimarzios, i just needed to mainly know if the wiring diagrams would work or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Easiest way to find out is with a continuity tester. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12056 Posted March 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 im aware of how a continuity tester works, but how would you do it with a pickup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Test the leads on each coil until you find the matching pairs. If you're touching the black and red wires with the tester and it starts beeping, that means that the red and black wires are connected to the same coil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomN Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 (edited) They aren't Dimarzio and the Dimarzio color code won't work. One looks to have 2 wires with shield. Obviously the two wires are signal hot and signal ground. And the shield is the RF ground. The other is too blurry for me to tell how many conductors it has. But if it has 4 conductors plus a shield. check and see if two of the wires are already connected together. If they are, leave them and protect the connection. Those would be used to coil split the pickup if you wanted. Otherwise just leave them connected together and to nothing else. The other two colors would be signal hot and signal ground and the shield would be RF Ground. You can connect each pickup with either color for Signal Hot or for Signal ground to hot or ground. If after you do that, they sound out of phase. Meaning thin and weak when used together, reverse the signal wires on one of the pickups and you will be all set. Edited March 27, 2007 by TomN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12056 Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 aight, well i found out theses pickups are from an RG2027X Prestige i cant find the diagrams though. not even ibanez.com has it in their wiring diagrams. it was only made in 2000, and its not in the 2000 catagory, so please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Well, if it's like most late-model IBZ pickups, the red is the hot wire, green and bare are ground, and black and white are the leads that get soldered together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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