Series/Parallel, Vintage Stack (N) LIL 59(B) Single Push-Pull for BOTH

[singlecutkiller]

Good Morning All,

Quick question. IS it possible to use a single Push/Pull pot to do series/parallel for BOTH pickups in my tele. Typical Vintage Stack (N)/LIL 59(B) set up. 3 way lever switch 1 vol 1 tone. Would use my tone as the PP switch.

Just to make sure i am communicating this correctly, Push Pull Tone pot would switch BOTH Neck and Bridge pickups from series to parallel operation.... 3 way lever would act as normal (N/Both/B).

Thanks in Advance.

Joe

[Juanhanglo]

Yes.

Most p/p pots are 2p2t, meaning they have 2 separate circuits that operate at once, and have 2 throws or positions (up and down.)

Dimarzio makes a 4p2t if you need more switching..

[singlecutkiller]

Yes.

Most p/p pots are 2p2t, meaning they have 2 separate circuits that operate at once, and have 2 throws or positions (up and down.)

Dimarzio makes a 4p2t if you need more switching..

PERFECT, Thank You for the quick response....

[Mincer]

Are you talking about both pickups in series/parallel with each other, or each individual pickup is able to switch in series/parallel?

Wait...you need both poles of a switch for one pickup to be series/parallel though. Look at this basic diagram (not a Tele, but you see how s/p is done on each pickup).

[jeremy]

if you want each pup to switch from series to parallel with one switch, then you need a 4p2t as far as i know

[ThreeChordWonder]

^ What Mincer said.

By default humbuckers are series wired.

Using SD colors:

Green = screw coil ground
Red = screw coil hot
White = slug coil ground
Black = slug coil hot.

The normal, series wiring is to ground the green, join the red and white together, to put the coils in series, leaving black as the hot "out".

To wire the coils in parallel, you have to split the red and white across one set of contacts. In series, the red goes to the white. In parallel it goes to the black or hot.

But that leaves the white hanging. So the second half of the switch is needed to provide a ground for the white.

You might think wiring the white to the middle contact on one side, so it goes push connects to red, pull connects to ground, would work, but it doesn't, because them the red is left hanging.

[ThreeChordWonder]

That having been said, you could use an S-1 pot, which has four sets of contacts in a push-push arrangement.

I will draw it up later and post it.

[Juanhanglo]

I never thought of the s1 switch as 4p2t.

VERY good to know.

[ThreeChordWonder]

Here you go