Series/Parallel Switch with North/Both/South Coils
Oct 18, 2011 9:36:36 GMT -5
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Post by asmith on Oct 18, 2011 9:36:36 GMT -5
In Cynical1's recent diagram, he had a DPDT Series/Parallel switch for a humbucker and an accompanying three-position "Single Coil" switch, selecting between the North coil, both coils, or the South coil. However, this coil-cut switch was only active in Series mode.
I thought we could go one better with this. That coil-cut switch could be designed to work on both series and parallel using a DPDT On-On-On switch and a DPDT On/On switch.
Was that last hour the best use of my time? No. Is this modification useful? Marginally. Nobody wants to briefly forget the switch logic, flip the switch for coil-cut in a hurry and find it isn't working. Other than that, this could be transposed into two single coils, say a Telecaster arrangement, for a series/parallel switch and a pickup selector switch.
This can also be done using a three-way "blade" or "rotary" switch. This could be used with a two-pickup guitar and a push/pull pot, for example, to render the switchpot as a "mode selector," instead of overriding the selector switch as in a lot of mods.
I thought we could go one better with this. That coil-cut switch could be designed to work on both series and parallel using a DPDT On-On-On switch and a DPDT On/On switch.
Was that last hour the best use of my time? No. Is this modification useful? Marginally. Nobody wants to briefly forget the switch logic, flip the switch for coil-cut in a hurry and find it isn't working. Other than that, this could be transposed into two single coils, say a Telecaster arrangement, for a series/parallel switch and a pickup selector switch.
This can also be done using a three-way "blade" or "rotary" switch. This could be used with a two-pickup guitar and a push/pull pot, for example, to render the switchpot as a "mode selector," instead of overriding the selector switch as in a lot of mods.
