wiring a 5 way 4P5T rotary switch - help needed

[Ro_S]

Hello,

I'm intent on using 5-position 4P5T rotary switches on some of my guitar modification projects.   Due to the applications and guitars in question, I want to use rotary switches in certain instances rather than a 5-way blade style 'super switch'.

I've never wired a rotary switch switch before however.  I need some help please.   I'm having difficulty finding a easily understandable wiring diagrams online for my purposes.

I wish to know how to wire a 5-position 4P5T rotary switches to achieve the following:

Scenario A:  configuration of a humbucker pickup 
-  inner coil only 
-  outer coil only 
-  both coils, in series (i.e. normal humbucker mode)
-  both coils, in series but out of phase
-  both coils, in parallel

Scenario B:   configuration of an aggregate style pickup (e.g. Seymour Duncan 'P-Rail';  Fender 'Triplebucker')
- P90 only
- single coil rail only 
- both, in series (full output)
- both coils, in series but out of phase
- both, in parallel

Scenario C: combining two separate pickups.
- pickup #1 only
- both pickups, in parallel
(i.e. typical combination setting)
- pickup #2 only
- both pickups, in series 
- both pickups, in series but out of phase

Scenario D:  combining two separate pickups, one of which is configured by a 4P5T rotary switch.
same as scenario C

Scenario E: combining two separate pickups, both of which have a 4P5T rotary switch.
same as scenario C

(notes:

- the order in which the 5 permutations in each scenario listed is just arbitrary and doesn't necessarily represent the order I want to operate in.)

- yes, I want to achieve the same 5 permutations in each case. )


I did a search on this forum but I couldn't find any existing threads that were suitable.

If anyone here can help me, I should be very grateful.

thanks

[ashcatlt]

As far as wiring goes, all five of these are exactly the same. You've got some of them listed in different order, but as you said the order really is arbitrary - just a matter of which lugs of the switch you use. I personally don't think you'll ever end up using the intra-pickup OoP options, but...

If you can find a superswitch version of any one of these, it's exactly what you need for all of them.

[newey]

Yes, you can think of a 4P5T rotary as just a Superswitch rolled into a ball. I'll have to hunt around to see if we have anything similar, at the moment work intervenes . . .

[Ro_S]

Nov 4, 2015 7:44:39 GMT -5 newey said:

Yes, you can think of a 4P5T rotary as just a Superswitch rolled into a ball. I'll have to hunt around to see if we have anything similar, at the moment work intervenes . . .

yes, please!