pmcguitars
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Post by pmcguitars on Feb 25, 2011 16:26:25 GMT -5
So i decided to put together a vhi inspired frankenstrat, i bought a cheap second hand body of ebay in a black gloss finish with a bath tub rout in it, got a vhii pickup from bar knuckle pickups, and have striped it using white electrical tape, i know i should prob paint it but i like the way the tape looks. picked up a 22 fret maple neck and installed a tremking tremolo and a roller nut with some planet waves locking tuners. anyway onto the wiring, i have the pickup in 4 conductor cause i have a push/pull vol pot i was gonna series/parallel the pup and then i had a sustainiac from another project which i thought would be nice in my frankenstrat but sustainiac have yet to mail be back with help with the wiring, so thought i would ask you guys for help. thinking push/pull on the bridge for series/parallel then standard 3 way toggle to pick between bridge/both/neck and then the standard mini toggles for the sustainiac, but i dont know how to wire it, i found some diagrams on their website but they dont help me with the push/pull pot i will prob try to modify this diagram to suit www.sustainiac.com/2pu_2-pot_toggles.pdfthey have one for a one pickup guitar too and i could insert my pickup selector and volume knob in there somewhere www.sustainiac.com/basic%201-pickup.pdfany help is much appreciated guys thanks
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Post by newey on Feb 25, 2011 17:08:59 GMT -5
OK, the diagram with 2 pots that you linked to has every thing you want except the bridge pickup series/parallel, as I read it.
The bridge pickup plays no part in the sustainer circuitry. It is shown as a two-conductor pickup (or, perhaps one conductor with shield). The hot simply connects to the three way toggle switch. The "not hot" is grounded.
You have a 4-conductor HB that you want to be able to chose for series/parallel. This wiring, plus the bridge pickup, can be thought of as a module. The module's outputs (a "hot" and a "not hot", i.e., 2 wires) connect to the 3-way toggle switch just as the "hot" and "not hot" are shown on the diagram.
Your HB's 4 wires will connect to the DPDT push/pull switch so as to connect in series/parallel. There are several diagrams to do this module posted in the Design Modules section of the Board. The 2 outputs from the switch go to the toggle switch, as stated above.
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