How do Seymour Duncan and Wolfetone wiring codes (humbucker) differ? Need some help.

[Navigator]

Hi guys,

I have a Wolfetone Marshallhead in the bridge of my strat (set up for coil splitting) and want to try a Duncan Custom Custom in its place.

I had a guitar tech do the initial strat wiring for me but I want to attempt to wire in the Duncan myself. My issue is that the wiring codes for the two pickups are different.

Both pickups have black, white, red, green, and bare wires. But my understanding is that on the Wolfetone the red wire is hot, while on the Duncan the black wire is hot. I assume that the bare wire on each is to ground.

Other than that I'm lost on the others. I plan to just solder all the connections for the new pickup where the other pickup wire were soldered. But I need to know which Duncan wires are equivalent to the Wolfetone wires.

Can you help me figure out how they wires match up.

I guess the puzzle comes down to this:
Wolfetone Duncan
Red = Black (hot)
Green. =
White. =
Black. =
Bare = Bare (ground)

Can you help me solve it? Thanks for any guidance you can share! Cheers.

 

[Findthetone1]

Email or call Wolfe. He's awesome to talk to. I've only ordered 2 conductors from him so I'm not sure.

 

[Dale B]

 

[Navigator]

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Thanks so much, guys. I meant to post this in the tech section. Really appreciate the help. And Dale B--you da man!

 

[Rick Lee]

My last text exchange with Wolfe about the Marshallhead I ordered:

My red is hot, my black and bare are ground, and green and white are the series link.

 

[Navigator]

Thanks for the further info, Rick Lee.

FYI, I did the pickup swap the other night, following Dale B's coding and it all worked just fine. Thanks again guys.