Epiphone X-1000 wiring question

[ecahbra]

I have an Epiphone X-1000 that has 3 pickups H/S/S and 3 mini toggle switches to select each pickups. There is one volume knob and one tone knob that is a push pull to either coil tap or something to that effect on the humbucker.


The volume pot is 500k and the tone is 300k. It looks to me like the two single coils are wired to two of the mini toggles and the humbucker is wired to the push pull 300k pot.



There is also a capacitor wired to the push pull tone pot.



I am looking to replace all three pickups (they are EMG selects now) with either active or passive pups. As there is no 5 way selector switch I am unsure about wiring the new pups and if I should make any changes to the way it is wired now.



Does anyone have any thoughts?  

Thanks in advance,

Ed  

[newey]

ecahbra-

Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!

There is also a capacitor wired to the push pull tone pot.

Is this the tone cap, or is this a second cap in addition to the tone cap?

It looks to me like the two single coils are wired to two of the mini toggles and the humbucker is wired to the push pull 300k pot.

If the 3 mini-toggles are to turn the individual pickups on/off, and assuming you are correct that the P/P pot is to cut one of the HB coils (it probably is), then you should see two center wires from the HB going to the P/P pot, and two additional wires from the HB- one to ground, and the other to the third toggle switch. Try to verify that this is so.

If so, you can then easily replicate the wiring for the new pups (we can help)and keep the same set-up. The three individual toggles are more "switchy" than a 5-way, in the sense that you may have to manipulate more switches to get the sounds you want. But they also offer two more combinations not available with the regular 5-way: N+B and N+M+B.

With the toggles, you also have an "all-off" configuration. That can be nice for leaving a spare guitar plugged in and ready to go onstage. It can also be a curse, if you accidentally turn the guitar off in mid-song.

[ecahbra]

Try to verify that this is so.

I will take a look this afternoon and let you know. Thanks.

[ecahbra]

then you should see two center wires from the HB going to the P/P pot, and two additional wires from the HB- one to ground, and the other to the third toggle switch.

There are only 3 wires for the HB. They go to the P/P pot switch portion. There is a wire from the switch portion that goes to the third toggle. It comes from the center conductor of one side of the switch assuming the two rows of 3 conductors are how it's laid out. Looking at it from the conductor side with the shaft up the middle on the left goes to the third toggle. the top left is wired to the bottom left and also has one of the HB wires connected to it. The top and middle on the right are tied together and to ground and the bottom right is where the other non ground HB wire is located. Not sure if my description is making any sense. I will try to get some pics up this weekend.

If I am thinking correctly my pickups are in series if all the toggle switches are on. Is that right?



BTW there is only one cap and it is wired between the middle conductor of the 500K P/P pot and ground. Then one of the other conductors on the pot goes to the volume pot on the lead tied to the output.

[newey]

OK, as I suspected, the cap is just the tone pot cap.

As for the HB and switch, a three-wire HB simply has the two center wires run together as one. But your verbal description doesn't help much. Better than pictures would be a simply diagram of the HB and the P/P.

But I think we've basically sussed out the existing scheme, the rest is details. Now we're back to the question of what you want to do- rewire it as it was, or do something different?