Split coil pickup - curiosity question

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Richard Sinkler
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Split coil pickup - curiosity question

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Bill Lawrence XR16 pickup, but could be any pickup that allows splitting the coil.

Normal mode (humbucker) uses the black(ground) and white wires straight to the Jack. To split the coil into a single coil pickup, you take the red wire to one side of a SPST switch, and the other side of the switch to ground on the Jack too.

My question is, how come the humbucker pickup mode doesn't work at the same time. It's ground is hooked up too.
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Ah! Thanks Georg.
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