giantlaser
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Post by giantlaser on Apr 1, 2014 15:34:49 GMT -5
i all, Being mr ultranoob that I am, I bought this Ibanez RG320z that has its original humbucker not installled but came with the guitar to self-install. I don’t really know anything about electronics and don’t really have that much soldering experience either. A couple of things I did try with moderate success though: - Solder a few guitar cables and
- Followed this tutorial where I installed this one humbucker in an immensely crappy strat copy. I must say I did get it to work:
The joy I felt was large eventhough the job was terrible looking as I cut the wires too long haha. Still, these experiences gave me the confidence I could try and figure out I have tried looking up wiring schematics for this particular model. The closest I could find was a schematic for the RG320, but not the RG320z. What I have found for the RG320 is this: Now that looks pretty damn different than what seems to be in my Z. I have 4 lead wires (including bare wire) coming out of my stock RG320z humbucker. While schematic above shows only 3. I came up with something really silly in photoshop (please don't laugh) to represent how the neck pickup is already installed and wired. But also the question marks about where the wires of the bridge pickup need to go because I'm pretty clueless about what the switch will do. The wire going to output I called input. It's silly. I would be very grateful for any feedback on my funky little adventure here. Kind regards, Kevin
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Post by geo on Apr 1, 2014 19:31:30 GMT -5
RG320z looks similar to the wiring for my RG2EX1... Which looks similar to this wiring diagram: Looks like red/green are for splitting the coils in the humbucker, white is your full output, grey/black is ground. Also, that isn't a standard 5-way switch, if it's anything like mine. If it says 2502N on the top, it works like this:
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Post by giantlaser on Apr 6, 2014 15:03:35 GMT -5
Hey geo, thanks for your input it's very helpful.
Yes my switch also says 2502N on the top. I did forget the green wire in my diagram. The diagram of the RG2EX1 seems very different to me but that maybe my inexperience with this. For instance the green wire of the neck pickup going to the switch on the RG2EX1 directly while in my case it goes to the side of the volume pot. My guess is that this means that in my diagram the green wire is simply not used because it goes to the ground circuit?
I guess at the end of the day I can just experiment and see what happens right?
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Post by geo on Apr 6, 2014 15:18:29 GMT -5
Yeah. Sounds like the way to go about it. To figure out what wire goes to what, plug into a headphone amp, switch to whatever wire you want, and tap the pickup with a screwdriver. If the coil's live, it'll sound like a microphone. From there, sounds like it's just trial-and-error to get where you're going, like you said.
I posted the RG2EX1 just because it splits the coils in two different ways, so I thought you might be interested in learning what switching modes you could wire up. The key information here is how the 2502N switch works; the rest is up to you.
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Post by JohnH on Apr 6, 2014 15:26:46 GMT -5
just wanted to point out that if you are investigating individual coil connections on a humbucker by tapping the poles, that you get some output from tapping the disconnected pole too, just because it is still linked magnetically. But you can usually at least hear that one is louder if you are only connected to one coil.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 9:18:15 GMT -5
I have found out just scratching with some alen key does the job. Tapping might be sensed by neighboring coils as John said.
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Post by giantlaser on Apr 15, 2014 2:55:16 GMT -5
Hey everyone, Apprecieate the input very much. To my frustration haven't found the time yet though. But i will be getting back to this. Also needed to clear out that it is an RGD320z and not an rg320. Searching for rgd returns a lot more useful information, like ibanez.wikia.com/wiki/RGD320Can't wait to start experimenting
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Post by newey on Apr 15, 2014 6:05:59 GMT -5
Not to hijack this thread, but we could have a discussion about Ibanez and their model numbering, which is byzantine in its complexity. I have a 1992 "470S". This is not to be confused with the "S470", which is a completely different guitar. For 1993, my "470S" was renamed as the "SF470". None of these should be confused with the later-issued "SV470" or the "S470B". And you thought it was hard to keep track of all the different variations on a Stratocaster!
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Post by giantlaser on Jul 15, 2014 23:38:29 GMT -5
Yeah Ibanez is a little annoying like that;
Anyway, I did it! Eventually connected the wires where I thought they needed to go. Still have serious doubts if soldering is for me. Holding the iron still was almost impossible, leave alone soldering proper joints. Everyone on youtube makes it look so damn easy. It took really long with quite a few attempts.
Thanks everyone for the help, it finally got me to actually do it after all!
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