Passive ... Agressive Pickups?

There are two basic types of pickup; passive and active. Passive pickups work through simple magnetic properties, sending impulses through wiring going into the amplifier. Active pickups are powered (usually by a battery). I am using the more common passive pickup, specifically DiMarzio DP 103 humbuckers. The humbucker is named for the fact that it's configuration is designed to "buck the hum", or cancel the hum that can happen with a single coil pickup. They are typically wired in series, so each of the two coils of the humbucker is linked like sausages in the wiring. This is not always so, and many different effects can be obtained by wiring in different ways. However, I am going for a standard wiring of two pickups with a single volume and tone, with a three way switch. The switch allowing to select neck, bridge, or both positions.

OK, so the pickups are passive. But the instructions are passive aggressive. The wiring schematic cryptically shows only two wires from each pickup. As you can see above, there are five wires sticking out the end of this thing. Well, after a bit of reading and head scratching, I realized that the black and white wires get tied together and capped (at least with this brand, you will have to be sure the wiring is what you expect before going ahead with the tying of wires), essentially eliminating two wires. And it would seem the green and the bare ground are wired as though they were one wire. So, in effect, we do effectively have only two wires. That's just paranormal stuff to someone who hasn't really done any electronics to speak of.

Now that I have that figured out, it's time to get into it. I spent some time last weekend when I was home doing most of the wiring. I hope to get the remainder done this weekend, and then I can start the assembly of this guitar. Yay.