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Post by mcentee2 on Mar 18, 2021 10:58:05 GMT -5
Hi I found this thread in a Google search for neck and bridge series only in position 1, there aren't many other hits out there! I can follow most of the thread and the wiring etc and am looking at v1.1I have one question though, regarding leaving hot connections hanging with that version and would appreciate some clarification if possible as I have tried to trace the wiring in each position and can't see which hot connections would be "hanging" in which connection ?Many thanks. You won't find any hanging-from-hot issues in v1.0 or v1.1. Only in v2.0 and 2.1. Ha ha! Thanks, my eyes were hurting from reading the chart one way then a other etc etc trying to find the "hang"! Fantastic, v1.1 with the jumper it is then - all positions standard except bridge which can blend in some neck in series - perfect. The Armstrong scheme blends in Middle rather than neck, so will look at that as well. Thankyou all again! |
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Post by mcentee2 on Mar 18, 2021 14:58:08 GMT -5
Apologies everyone, being thick here! I still can't see in 2.1 where the hanging connection is in position 5 (neck only). When the blend pot is turned to be resistive between the two connected lugs I see the bridge pickup hot and ground wires basically shorted to hot side, leaving just the neck. When the two blend pot lugs are shorted then the path has neck and bridge in series. Not seeing a hang  |
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Post by JohnH on Mar 18, 2021 16:23:59 GMT -5
Apologies everyone, being thick here! I still can't see in 2.1 where the hanging connection is in position 5 (neck only). When the blend pot is turned to be resistive between the two connected lugs I see the bridge pickup hot and ground wires basically shorted to hot side, leaving just the neck. When the two blend pot lugs are shorted then the path has neck and bridge in series. Not seeing a hang Yes its not like it's connected to hot and the other end dangling disconnected. But it's still amounts to a lump of unshielded metal on hot, poking outside the cavity shielding. So it might collect a tad of emf from somewhere, but its really not a significant issue. When it occurs, we also have the fader fully fading one pickup and the other is providing a single-coil tone as expected, and with all the hum and buzz that comes with that, which we also accept. |
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Post by mcentee2 on Mar 18, 2021 16:39:29 GMT -5
Apologies everyone, being thick here! I still can't see in 2.1 where the hanging connection is in position 5 (neck only). When the blend pot is turned to be resistive between the two connected lugs I see the bridge pickup hot and ground wires basically shorted to hot side, leaving just the neck. When the two blend pot lugs are shorted then the path has neck and bridge in series. Not seeing a hang Yes its not like it's connected to hot and the other end dangling disconnected. But it's still amounts to a lump of unshielded metal on hot, poking outside the cavity shielding. So it might collect a tad of emf from somewhere, but its really not a significant issue. When it occurs, we also have the fader fully fading one pickup and the other is providing a single-coil tone as expected, and with all the hum and buzz that comes with that, which we also accept. Thanks John, now I have that concept in my head - basically an ungrounded "aerial" on hot then that makes a bit more sense. I'll go back again and try to follow the schemes  |
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Post by mihn on Aug 28, 2024 7:27:31 GMT -5
Thank you reTrEaD and Yogi B this is brilliant. Always found the blends of NxM too dark and BxM lacking fullness, this should compensate for those problems. Is there a way to add a parallel neck-on mechanism into this wiring? Would the below addition switch works correctly (Neck-on in pos 1&2 when series blend knob is all the way off)? I know this defeats the Zero Bux's purpose but this would max out the strat versatility for me  |
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Post by reTrEaD on Aug 29, 2024 0:25:42 GMT -5
Would the below addition switch works correctly (Neck-on in pos 1&2 when series blend knob is all the way off)? I'd give that a qualified yes. You show the throw of the switch that is engaged when the switch is pulled, connected to the back of the "blend" pot. However you don't show a jumper connecting the back of the blend pot to the ground and other pots. We can't rely on that ground connection being made through the bushing of the blend pot through the foil backing of the pickguard to the bushings of the other pots. You may have already intended to add that jumper and just neglected to draw it in, but I mention it just to be sure. |
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Post by mihn on Sept 1, 2024 8:33:04 GMT -5
Yes thanks you're right I forgot about that, it definitely should be grounded through other pots.
Just an update I tested it out with my A200k no load pot, although 250k should be fine, and it's pretty smooth with no abrupt tone jump at the end.
When the push pull is engaged, I noticed the blend pot now acts like a volume for the bridge pickup in position 1 and 2.
So we get a series + parallel blender, where without optional jumper it's the half blender mod; with the jumper it's a quarter blender mod.
That was pretty neat and fun, thanks!
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Post by reTrEaD on Sept 1, 2024 12:33:14 GMT -5
When the push pull is engaged, I noticed the blend pot now acts like a volume for the bridge pickup in position 1 and 2. Except that the volume of the bridge is max'd when the blend pot is CCW, right? In position 2, does the tone soften abruptly when you first turn the blend pot counter-clockwise from 10? |
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