nevermind, i got a set and wired them today, now my strat sounds like a strat and its good.
one thing bothers me though; the middle pickup.
it has to be reverse wound to be hum canceling, but how do you know which one is the middle, they are identical apart from the bridge which has the yellow wire.
if i accidentally put the middle in the neck presumably the hum cancel would only work in position 4, or for some reason are neck and middle pickups the same?