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Wiring problems
Hey all,
I got a pair of 4 wire hummers and a cheap crappy selector switch, and I'm having trouble getting them wired so they work like:
Neck / Neck Split (outside coil) / Neck + Bridge split / Bridge split (outside coil) / Bridge
I had them wired up okay (I think...) but when the neck split it was using the inside coil, so I changed the hot wire to green and put the black to ground.
For the splitting, I've put red+white cables from each pup onto the middle terminal.
Heres the weird part; when I plug the guitar in, and touch the terminals the pickups are soldered to, no matter where the switch is it gives buzzing sound (Example; I'm touching the bridge terminal, but switch is in neck position, it still buzzes). Shouldn't it be silent because the terminal isn't selected?
And also, positions 2 and 4 sound exactly the same. (Sound much more like the bridge split on both).
I dont know what I've done wrong but it seems like I might have killed the selector switch.
Switch layout (all terminals stick out on the same side of the switch):
B......B+N....N.......V......*1.....G......*1..... *
[].......[].....[]......[]......[]......[]......[].....[]
B = Bridge Hot
B+N = Bridge + Neck red+white wires
N = Neck hot
V = To volume pot
G = To ground
* = nothing
With the old pickups (Same setup...Actually worked) there were wires on the terminals with *1 marked above them. These terminals don't seem to do anything (dont make any live buzzing in any switch position when touched) so I let them be, but I guess that might be part of my problem? The colour codes on the old pups were different, and I tried putting the new ones in the same (or what I assumed was the same) but they didn't work.
Thanks in advance,
Sean
I got a pair of 4 wire hummers and a cheap crappy selector switch, and I'm having trouble getting them wired so they work like:
Neck / Neck Split (outside coil) / Neck + Bridge split / Bridge split (outside coil) / Bridge
I had them wired up okay (I think...) but when the neck split it was using the inside coil, so I changed the hot wire to green and put the black to ground.
For the splitting, I've put red+white cables from each pup onto the middle terminal.
Heres the weird part; when I plug the guitar in, and touch the terminals the pickups are soldered to, no matter where the switch is it gives buzzing sound (Example; I'm touching the bridge terminal, but switch is in neck position, it still buzzes). Shouldn't it be silent because the terminal isn't selected?
And also, positions 2 and 4 sound exactly the same. (Sound much more like the bridge split on both).
I dont know what I've done wrong but it seems like I might have killed the selector switch.
Switch layout (all terminals stick out on the same side of the switch):
B......B+N....N.......V......*1.....G......*1..... *
[].......[].....[]......[]......[]......[]......[].....[]
B = Bridge Hot
B+N = Bridge + Neck red+white wires
N = Neck hot
V = To volume pot
G = To ground
* = nothing
With the old pickups (Same setup...Actually worked) there were wires on the terminals with *1 marked above them. These terminals don't seem to do anything (dont make any live buzzing in any switch position when touched) so I let them be, but I guess that might be part of my problem? The colour codes on the old pups were different, and I tried putting the new ones in the same (or what I assumed was the same) but they didn't work.
Thanks in advance,
Sean
that switch would work like this:
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