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Post by themanster101 on Jul 2, 2007 19:58:16 GMT -5
Hello everybody!
I'm a newbie to the site. Someone referred me to the site.
I wanted to wire up a strat with some mini humbuckers.
how can I wire this strat, while having the ability to switch all the pickups from series, parallel, split coil, without the aid of three dpdt on/on/on switches, one respectively for each pickup?
In other words, I want to have all of them switch simultaneously from series, parallel, and split coil.
Mind you, I also want to have the standard pickup switching using the standard 5 way toggle.
Any ideas?
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Post by jkemmery on Jul 2, 2007 22:41:53 GMT -5
If you could find a 6P3T switch, you could wire them up to switch the way you want simultaneously, but I'm not sure if something like that exists. You could use one 4P3T switch (which are readily available from various sources, i.e. AllParts, WD, StewMac etc ... (4 pole on/on/on) ) to switch 2 of the pups simultaneously, then a second 2P3T (2 pole on/on/on) to switch the other pup. That way you eliminate one of the 3 switches. Bear in mind that the more terminals on the switch, the larger physically it is. You may find it easier to fit 2 or 3 smaller switches in the cavity than one big one. You could then route the "hot" wires coming off of your series/parallel/single switch(es) to the 5-way as normal.
Hope This Helps
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Post by JohnH on Jul 3, 2007 5:30:31 GMT -5
If you could step back from requiring the parallel mode and just have series and single-coil, your single switch for all three pups reduces to a simple and easily obtainable 3-pole mini-toggle switch.
I just thought I'd put that on the table.
John
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Post by jkemmery on Jul 3, 2007 10:14:38 GMT -5
John,
Could you post a simple diagram for that? I have an idea of how it would work, but can't quite visualize it. Thanks.
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Post by JohnH on Jul 3, 2007 15:33:42 GMT -5
Coil cuts on an Hb only need one pole, traditionally, just to shunt the centre link (red/white in SD colours) to ground, bypassing one coil. Or, to avoid shunting, the pole goes to ground and connects either to the usual ground wire of the full Hb, or the centre link connection. Either way three such single pole switches may be substituted by a 3-pole switch.
I could do a diagram but not at the moment
John
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Post by jkemmery on Jul 3, 2007 18:14:15 GMT -5
No, that's OK, I can picture it now. Thanks for the explanation.
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