Schematic wiring for Ric Humbuckers

[Oskar]

I just picked up a Ric that had a pair of Ric humbuckers installed, but it appears they were not installed correctly. I'm looking for a simpleton's schematic, e.g. picture of pickups, pots and colored leads that can guide me to rewiring this.The only thing the Ric site has is the John Kay schematic, but from what I understand that guitar has some phase switches added. I just want to use the 5 basic Ric controls with these pickups. The extra wiring from the humbuckers is what's throwing me off. Would be most appreciate of any guidance. If it's easier a schematic can be sent to me via e-mail. Thanks.

[Grey]

It's not a 481 is it? (Stock phase reversal switch from the factory)

[ken_j]

http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19521-HB1%20Wiring.pdf
Use this along with the schematic for your guitar model.

[Oskar]

It's not a 481 is it? (Stock phase reversal switch from the factory)

I don't think so. The guy I got the guitar from said he replaced the original pickups with Ric Humbuckers. Here's a description of them:

Both pickups have the following wires:

Black, White, Red, Green, and bundled bare wires. Both are stamped "Rickenbacker" on the bottom with this number: IC0056. The neck pickup is marked (with pen) "HB1" and "OK Cris"
No pen markings on the neck pickup. The volume pots were replaced with 500Ks. I have the originals.

Here's a photo of the guitar.

[doctorwho]

That's a nice model 610!

The control circuit for that maodel is here:

http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19511.pdf

Unfortunately, I don't know what wires on the pickup go where ... the circuit for the 650 models (which have humbuckers) is a four-control circuit, plus there is nothing specific with the humbucker wiring indicated:

http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19501.pdf

There are only two wires shown for the pickup, one of which is ground (shield), whereas the humbucker schematic shows two wires plus ground (shield).

[Oskar]

Use this along with the schematic for your guitar model.

I saw that, but there's no blue wire on the pickups I have. Here's a photo of the wiring. Looks a bit messy to me.

[johnhall]

Green, blue, same difference.

[parker_knoll]

Can i just revive this thread to ask how to reverse the phase on the HB-1? My HB-1 is out of phase with my Higain, so i need to switch it if i want them to blend.

I looked at the schematic but i'm not big on electronics. Do i need to swap the two south connections for two north connections?

e.g. according to this schematic (http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19521-HB1%20Wiring.pdf) i join red and blue, black becomes the active and clear becomes the shield?

[johnhall]

Just reverse the red and green wires on the back of the pots.

[parker_knoll]

sorry, i'm not totally clear (NB that's not my photo above, it's someone else's)

[aceonbass]

The HB's look like they're wired correctly to me. What makes you think there is a problem? I'm about to replace the stock toasters in a 660 with HB1's and will be replacing all of the original electronics using 500K tone and blend pots, 500K push-pull volume controls as coil taps, and .027uF Ajax Big Blues for tone caps.

[parker_knoll]

okay, who's talking to who? this is all confusing. i just want to know how to reverse the phase on an HB1 because it's out of phase with the higain i'm pairing it with. i'll start a new thread.

[aceonbass]

Toby, John Hall already answered your question.

[electrofaro]

i'll start a new thread.

Great way to make friends here... the answer is already there!

[parker_knoll]

i was too dense to understand it