Help HSS Wiring

[fixmetal]

Hi all. I'm trying to renew my guitar wiring. I've got an HSS guitar with 2 mini-humbuckers and 1 real Humbucker. I bought 3 new DPDT pots. The idea is:
3 volume controls each one for 1 PU with coil splitting through the DPDT. Plus, I have 3 SPDT switches I want to use to activate every single PU.
I wired everything with different wirings. Now I arrived to this point:
when I activate 2 PUs (i.e. bridge+middle) and turn down totally the B's volume, it affects the total output. The result is that even the middle PU stop playing....even if its volume control is totally turned up!
Should this be right?I have never tried a 2 volume-control guitar with 2 PU's activated....
bye

p.s. any hints for a new correct wiring would be very welcomed

oh ya, this is my first post welcome to myself

[UnklMickey]

fixmetal said:

...Should this be right?


.......any hints for a new correct wiring would be very welcomed ...

yes, and no...................................

"normal" or "forward" wiring of the volume controls results in exactly that symptom.

read up on reverse wiring of volume pots.

unk

[fixmetal]

I think I've wired it correctly, but this doesn't work...
I've drawn and scanned the corrent wiring. Any hints would be pleased....:*
Wiring
thanks in advance :/

p.s. those ground symbols @ the bottom of the SPDTs, means I've grounded all the switches.

[UnklMickey]

let's see:

1 -- (ok) you got the color codes right.

2 -- (ok) the reverse wiring on the pots is right.

3 -- (ok) there's a better way to split the HBs, but the way you did it will still work.

4 -- (mostly ok) the way you drew the SPDTs,
relative to the top of the drawing being "up",
the lever of the SPDT needs to be down for on.

so it means that your wiring isn't exactly as shown on the print.

or your grounds don't all meet.

or you only have one wire going to your output jack.

or you have a blob of solder on some connection for the output hot that is bridging all the signal to ground.


when you say "it doesn't work", does that mean: no sound at all?

or is there one specific problem?



unk

[fixmetal]

...well...
The neck pickup works ok. It Splits ok and everything else is good.
The middle pickup sounds like out of phase. Anyway atm 1 pot (which was serving the middle pickup) got fucked. Probably too much hot temperature, fk it.
The bridge pickup seems to work. Atm I don't have the Invader, I've soldered the old jackson JC50BC which was mounted on the previous wiring.
Well the problem now is the middle pickup. When I'll buy a new pot, I'll make you know...

p.s. yes the SPDTs work that way

p.p.s. what's the way to better split the HBs? I've followed the classical SD schematic's method...as shown on their site...

[UnklMickey]

fixmetal said:

....what's the way to better split the HBs? I've followed the classical SD schematic's method...as shown on their site...

if you only have a SPST, you have to do it their way.

if you have a SPDT you can bypass, rather than shunt the unused coil.


also, you can change the "stacking" of the coils, so that they will be hum-canceling.

before, none of the combinations of split coils were hum-canceling

in this case, i changed the bridge.

B+M and B+N will be hum-canceling.

M + N will not.

[fixmetal]

@ this point I could wire the neck as the bridge, making it hum cancelling when splitted with the middle.

[UnklMickey]

you basically have 3 choices.

any pair of pickups that are wired the same, won't hum-cancel when paired as single.

any pair that are different, will.



unk

[fixmetal]

those are 2 choices though gh
where's the 3rd?

[UnklMickey]

i explained where the dots were, it was your job to connect them.

your choices are:

1 -- wire the neck and middle the same.

2 -- wire the bridge and middle the same.

3 -- wire the bridge and neck the same.


because.........................

any pair of pickups that are wired the same, won't hum-cancel when paired as single.

any pair that are different, will.