Seymour Duncan pickups

menamestom

Installing an SSL-6 to the bridge of my strat.  Would you normally wire it backwards i.e.  white to ground and black to hot?

The other 2 pickups are standard Fender, with RWRP middle. 

Funkfingers

Two considerations - magnetic polarity relationships and coil winding directions. 

Install the SSL-6 without shortening its output conductors. Begin with white to switch, black to ground. If the phase relationship is out, swap the conductors over at the next string change. 

I'm sorry to be unable to give a simple definitive answer. Fender makes several variations of Stratocaster pickup. The vintage replica models replicate the magnetic polarity of the era being emulated.

menamestom

Funkfingers said:

Two considerations - magnetic polarity relationships and coil winding directions. 

Install the SSL-6 without shortening its output conductors. Begin with white to switch, black to ground. If the phase relationship is out, swap the conductors over at the next string change. 

I'm sorry to be unable to give a simple definitive answer. Fender makes several variations of Stratocaster pickup. The vintage replica models replicate the magnetic polarity of the era being emulated.

Thanks.   That is what I did, an easy enought change if I need to.  I did check the DC resistance in position 5 with the leads clipped both ways and it was about the same, so thought I’d go with the correct SD white hot, black ground.