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  • Where can I find info. about how works a 5 way switch?

    I want to know how works the 5 way switch in my ibanez rg 570 because I want to change my invader pickup to a jb, but want to change the config. and i have no idea I know how to sold but not how the switches work
    my actual config= neck, nech+sigle, single, singel+bridge,bridge
    and I want =
    sigle, single+neck,neck, neck split+bridgesplit,bridge.
    Could you help me??
    Thanks

  • #2
    The inline 8 terminal switches are numbered across 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 with the 4 and 5 terminals being the commons and are used as the switch outputs.

    1 is the bridge hot
    2 is the mid hot
    3 is the neck hot
    4 is the output to the volume pot.

    Ibanez uses a few different wirings in their guitars and the schematics are available at www.ibanez.com

    To start your mod wire the neck hot to the #2 terminal and the middle pickup hot to the #3 terminal. I haven't figured out how to split the pickups in the #4 position and keep them hum cancelling using the 5 way in that guitar. If you wired the common (#5 terminal) to ground, the coil link (red/white on SD pickups) of the neck pickup to #8 and the coil link of the bridge pickup to #7 the pickups will split in the #4 position but they won't be hum cancelling.

    It may be possible to wire the splits to be hum cancelling in the #4 position but I haven't been able to come up with it yet. A dpdt push/pull pot would make the splits easier to manage and would also give you the neck/bridge full on option which is also a very useable tone on a RG 570.
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    • #3
      so what's 5678???
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      • #4
        5 is a common, 6-7-8 are simular to 1-2-3 just like on a Fender switch. they are used for tappind and running feeds to the tone control portion of the circuit depending on how the circuit is layed out.
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        • #5
          Thank you Robert for your help, Iīm gonna think in push poll pots, but may be gonna bring the guitar to a luthier, itīs a great art to do changes in a guitar.

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          • #6
            The "normal" 5-way switches are something like this. You have to find the numbers youself....

            Position, Terminals are connected 8 (<->):
            1. 1 <-> 4; 5 <-> 8
            2. 1+2 <-> 4; 5+6 <-> 8
            3. 2 <-> 4; 6 <-> 8
            4. 2+3 <-> 4; 6+7 <-> 8
            5. 3 <->4; 7 <-> 8

            maybe the numbers are wrong. With my 4 and 8 are common I thinkt this is a Ibanez switch with the numbers this way.... But I'm not sure...
            Last edited by Marcel; 03-17-2004, 08:46 PM.
            RG 550 [JB | SingleSizedHole(TM) | V1 (to be replaced)]
            TS 7 (modded)
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            • #7
              Thank you Marcel, so I donīt understand what means the numbers, terminals? and wich is the result of convine them in your diagram. what means <->
              I feel a little fool.
              and thank you all for all your help, this is a great forum.

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              • #8
                A sorry it was just confusing. It was late in the night
                I wanted to say that their is a common terminal (4) which goes to terminal 1 in Pos 1,
                to 1 and 2 in pos 2,
                to 2 in pos 3,
                to 2+3 in pos 4
                and to 3 in pos 5

                the same with the 4 other terminals: 5 is common ....

                the terminals are:
                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

                I've just found the diagram but it's too large to post here i can mail it to you or you search on the ibanez website...
                RG 550 [JB | SingleSizedHole(TM) | V1 (to be replaced)]
                TS 7 (modded)
                Hot Rod 50+ XL
                Framus Dragon 4x12
                V-AMP II for practice

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