which wire is which?

So I want to replace my bridge p/up

Not much information.

How wonderfully random.

It's the British way :lol:

The black is ground and the white is hot. Red/yellow are already connected. ymmv of course

I have no idea what happened there :/ its supposed to say I want to replace my bridge p/up on my strat with a h bucker but it has 5 wires :L which is which?

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That doesn't look much like a humbucker to me...

That doesn't look much like a humbucker to me...

It has 2 rails and 5 wires what else could it be?

Different manufacturers color code their wires differently. What brand is the pickup?

You had a different picture up earlier that showed more clearly that the wires are already soldered together, that's what it looked like to me

How can I test to find out which wire is which?

Trial and error would probably work. Hook it up, play it, if it sounds bad swap around some wires. :mrgreen:

Two of the wires are for coil-splitting and if you don't have coil-splitting those two join together.

Different manufacturers use different colour coding - Dimarzio red is hot, green is ground but others like Seymour Duncan are different.

From a mathematical point of view the different combinations are 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 120 different combinations so trial and error may not be a good idea.

Suggest you determine what brand and look it up on the internet using google or whatever.

lol its not that bad. The bare is the blade ground. Black-White is usually a coil . So Yellow ? Not on Duncans . DiMarzio ? Anyway if you have a meter find the coils. I bet Bl-Wh, Yellow- Red. There s a slight tonal difference which leads go to ground, hot, and together, but some don't hear it and most don't care. So any coil lead Hot, the other to the other coil , its other lead to G. You have a 50/50 chance of in phase. If its in phase its hum bucking. My guess is G-Bl,Wh+Red, Yellow -Hot.Be sure to ground the bare.

I'm thinking the start wires are on one end of the coil & finish are on the other end
try this
Black & bare solder to the ground
solder your Yellow & red together & tape
& use your White as your hot, solder to switch

That may be more likely .I had the Duncan Wh-Red bias. Non Duncans use White for hot sometimes. YES. look at the bottom in the photo.

Upon closer inspection I saw that the yellow and red were soldered together as were the black and the bare so I assumed the white was the output and the red and yellow were for coil splitting does that sound right to u guys? Cos i can't really hear the difference between it and a single coil :/

White is positive (input). Correct on other stuff. Tape the red and yellow connection so it doesn't short on anything. You can split it later, if you want. Twist the white and black for various noise protection.

Yup, sounds right. If you don't want to do any coil splitting, you can leave our like that.

I'm not sure if this means anything to u guys as to how it's wired but this is what the description of it says: Black and white line R=9.8kilohms, white and yellow line =5.2kilohms

Black is ground, white is hot. white and yellow is only measuring one coil out of the 2, that's what a split would read... about half of the total value.

Yep. Black to white is both coils. White to yellow is one coil. Red to black should be ~5k too. Sounds like you have it right.

Yep. Black to white is both coils. White to yellow is one coil. Red to black should be ~5k too. Sounds like you have it right.

Ok thanks :)