Any kind soul care to edify me on coil tapping?

[Loomer]

I have a Strat ( ) that I'm planning on dropping a HB into. At the bridge. It's a Lace Sensor Red Dually. There are 3 wires coming from each coil. I already have a push/pull pot.

Would anyone be so kind as to draw or link me to a diagram or instructions on how to install this? I would be extremely grateful. 

[theworkoffire]

http://www.lacemusic.com/wiring/pdf/4.pdf ?

[djetz]

First thing you need to know is that "tapping" a coil and splitting a humbucker are two different things.

Even pickup makers these days use the terms interchangably, but tapping is actually shorting out part of a coil so as to reduce output. It's usually done with single coils, but sometimes people tap one or both coils of a humbucker.

Splitting a humbucker is shorting out one whole coil so the pickup approximates (very badly, in my opinion) a single coil.

[Loomer]

@theworkoffire: You rule. Thanks so much. This is exactly what I was looking for! 



@djetz: I appreciate your informative, tho pedantic, factoids and opinions.