EVH pup not broken

[Anje]

I haven't read the article but a parallel coil humbucker is a classic Anderson & Tyler feature for instance; was used a lot with Duncan JB and similar high output full size or stacked humbucker pickups from the late 70's / 80's & on.

 

[chumbucket]

I haven't read the article but a parallel coil humbucker is a classic Anderson & Tyler feature for instance; was used a lot with Duncan JB and similar high output full size or stacked humbucker pickups from the late 70's / 80's & on.

Yeah, the only times that I've liked parallel humbuckers is when they're high output. Otherwise, they sound weak and out of phase-y.

 

[Exo-metal]

We need the ToneNerd to weigh in...

 

[scottosan]

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This gives the tele approximation when doing parallel in a bride humbucker. I do not think for a second that it was wired in parallel. I don't even believe that eddie rewound it by hand. And, for it to be wired in parallel, it's not a matter of mixing leads up, it a matter of having a lead on each pickup to ground and a lead to each to hot on a 2-conductor pickup. This would be very difficult to tuck the lead away to tape. on a rewind. Only the screw coil start lead is soldered to the baseplate on a PAF. The start of the slug coils is soldered in series with the finish lead of the screw coil and tucked neatly between the coils.

So, the most common mistake would be to swap the finish and start leads on the second coil, but the is NOT parallel, that make the coils out of phase, which is incredible weak and unusable in a humbucker.

For him to have wired both in parallel, would no mean that leads for 2 separate coils were soldered to the single hot on a braided lead, and then the remaining lead from the slug coil would have to be soldered to the baseplate/ground where there would not have been any existing solder residue since only the screw side is grounded. You'd think that since there was no existing solder residue on the slug side of the baseplate, what would make him decide to ground it?