Lakland 55-94 new pickups wiring help needed 🙏🏼

[andysg42]

Any help appreciated 👍

I'm replacing the Bartolini pickups for some delano pickups .The Delano's have  completely different cable colours. ! Any help appreciated . Bartolini cables top 3 , new dalano cables bottom 2 .Thanks 

Edited April 17, 2020 by andysg42

[John Cribbin]

Here you go:

 

https://www.delano.de/downloads/installation_guide.pdf

 

[andysg42]

Thanks John . Have looked at this but find there drawings a bit confusing 😳. Not really technically minded , just having a go in the lockdown as my go to tech is in hiding . Just need to work out witch two wires go to the on/on/on switch and which three go to the balance control ? 🥴

[ikay]

For the neck (J) pickup, the white wire (hot) and the black+shield wires (cold) should just go where the original J hot and cold wires went which should be easy enough to spot.

For the bridge (MM) pickup, the white and green (hot) wires should go to the switch where the original black and red wires went. It will work whichever way round they go (eg. white for black and green for red, or vice versa) but the order does determine which coil is tapped. Wire it up and if you're not happy with which coil is being tapped just swap the wires over. (Bartolini wiring code says red is neck coil and black is bridge coil)

The brown+yellow+shield wires go to the pot lug where the original white+green+shield wires went.

 

Edited April 17, 2020 by ikay

[John Cribbin]

OK try this ... It's a matter of substitution ....

The Delano chart lists what colour wire does what.

Google the Bart wiring chart, now you can identify what colour wire does what in each brand.

Personally, I would then draw a basic chart of the switch / connection points. So for example, if the Bart says hot is Blue and connects to the second terminal and the Delano hot is Red, mark that connection point Red on the chart and work your way around until you have identified where all the new wires go. Double check everything before you unsolder the existing pickups.

I'd remove and replace one pickup at a time just to help prevent any confusion / mistakes.

Edited April 17, 2020 by John Cribbin

[andysg42]

2 hours ago, ikay said:

For the neck (J) pickup, the white wire (hot) and the black+shield wires (cold) should just go where the original J hot and cold wires went which should be easy enough to spot.

For the bridge (MM) pickup, the white and green (hot) wires should go to the switch where the original black and red wires went. It will work whichever way round they go (eg. white for black and green for red, or vice versa) but the order does determine which coil is tapped. Wire it up and if you're not happy with which coil is being tapped just swap the wires over. (Bartolini wiring code says red is neck coil and black is bridge coil)

The brown+yellow+shield wires go to the pot lug where the original white+green+shield wires went.

 

Thanks ikay . All sorted , all the right way round 😮 !! Soldering took some getting used to , but the bass fired straight up , what a difference these pickups make , really brought the bass to life , a bit of a gamble that paid off . Thanks for your help 👍🍺🍺

 

 

Th

[ikay]

Excellent, well done!