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Post by Runewalker on Jul 9, 2010 14:46:38 GMT -5
Greetings travelers! I know, long time, etc. Working for a living is overrated and has cut deeply into the impant stuff like building and playing guitars. So I dug out the stack of "in-process" axes and started staging parts and lay outs for a couple of HHs. My standard HH wiring scheme is the HBD: guitarnuts2.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=nutzoid&action=display&thread=3778&page=1Tried, true, subtle and viciously beastly. (Thank you John H!) However those 4PDTs take up some control cavity landscape that a couple of these HH bods appear not to accommodate. I will still try to wedge the HBD in these, but there a 60% chance I will abandon that idea. I could get the switch arrays in, but it would crowd out fat-finger space on the outboard knobs and switches. Still have to play the thing, after all. So as a fall back I would like to explore the challenges and options for a different array. My first build ever, many years ago, and before I found GN2, used DPDTs - on.on.ons for each humbucker, giving local series, single, parallel for both the neck and bridge pups. Long ago I discussed these and John found them too "fiddly" but I still have the guitar I tried them on and they are ok. Topside the configuration would look something like this: Operationally it would look like: I started a wiring diagram but exceeded my skills there in mere minutes. I believe I remember something about the Neck single North and Bridge single south combo would be non-humbucking. And of course the Humbucker / single coil combos would be partially non-humcancelling. Could I beg for some help? Purty Please? Unless this already exists somewhere on the site, of course. Thanks Gents. RW
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Post by JohnH on Jul 9, 2010 16:32:51 GMT -5
hey he's back - with guitars to wire! Did I say that? how rude of me! Anyway... Your idea is not so different to the HDB and JPLP designs, apart from the use of the on/on/on switches. The wiring with the tone pots, volume pots and main toggle and series/parallel switches would be very similar. At the pickups, wiring like this would be needed: www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=series_spl_parallel-w-phaseWith the phase switch only on one pickup What you lose with the on/on/on switch system is the chance for the seperate coils of the humbuckers to be selected, to optimise hum cancelling in and out of phase. A north and a south coil, one from each pup should be humcancelling in-phase if the pups are the same, so the only loss is hum cancelling in oop mode, with two single coils selected. j
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