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Post by burger72 on Apr 23, 2011 6:05:21 GMT -5
Desperately seeking a wiring diagram for Les Paul Studio Lite MIII (H/S/H) . Any info, pics etc would be awesome...................
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by JohnH on Apr 23, 2011 7:30:27 GMT -5
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Post by newey on Apr 23, 2011 7:31:18 GMT -5
burger72-
Hello and welcome to G-Nutz2!
I did a quick websearch and came up empty-handed; I assume you have searched more thoroughly. Gibby has no diagram for this on their website at any rate.
I did see other folks with the same inquiry as yours- or maybe those were yours, under a different name . . .
At any rate, I was unfamiliar with the wiring for this, which actually sounds like it's pretty cool. Knowing what it does, we can perhaps deduce the wiring needed to produce those results, and "reverse-engineer" a diagram.
For the rest of the nuts, what we have here is a HSH LP, single V & T, with a five-way switch (number of poles unknown) and a mini-toggle switch.
The toggle switch acts as a "Mode switch" for the 5-way. With the toggle switch "up", both HBs are split, giving the standard Stratocaster sounds on the 5-way: Br/ Br + M/ M / M + N/ N
(I put that in here for Gibson-ish types who may not know what a Strat does . . . ;D)
With the toggle "down", things get interesting. Now the 5-way gives:
1) Bridge full HB
2) Br HB + Neck HB
3) Neck full HB
4) Neck full HB w/ treble "roll off" (presumably through an inductor)
5) Dead setting, no output
Do you have the original switches still in the guitar? that would help us sort things out.
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Post by newey on Apr 23, 2011 10:11:38 GMT -5
Ack! Ninja'd by JohnH!
Looks like he found the diagram also, although I'll have to trace that schematic through to see how they got this done with a regular 5-way switch.
As I suspected, an inductor is used at position 4 on the one half of the 5-way switch.
EDIT: Just traced through the schematic JohnH found, and it correlates with the switch positions I listed, so we're good to go.
This is an interesting scheme. We've had folks ask for a set-up giving Strat sounds in one position, and with the flick of a switch, gives the LP sounds. This does all that, with the added bonus of the "tone rolled off" inductor setting.
The dead position can be useful onstage as a standby, or as a kill switch, although not the easiest to manipulate while playing.
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Post by burger72 on Apr 23, 2011 17:22:46 GMT -5
Hello and thanks heaps!!!!! Am wondering if you could ID the black circle between the pots on the MIII Wiring diagram- I guess I'm not much of a guitar tech!
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Post by JohnH on Apr 23, 2011 17:41:01 GMT -5
Hello and thanks heaps!!!!! Am wondering if you could ID the black circle between the pots on the MIII Wiring diagram- I guess I'm not much of a guitar tech! Thats the main tone capacitor, 0.022uF according to the other diagram, and a common value for such. There's another cap as well, in series with the inductor. Its value is 0.005uF on the schematic, and is shown as a circle with a 'C' in it above the tone pot on the wiring diagram. J |
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Post by burger72 on Apr 25, 2011 19:28:22 GMT -5
Well guys will start by sayin thanks heaps. Have successfully rewired guitar and its better than new! Have had it worked on before and am guessing the guy that did it had done some improvising to get it going but using diagram managed to change it back. Again, thanks you ROCK!!!!!!
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