100K Pots?

cohara41

cohara41

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Got a couple of these in my parts drawer. I'm putting together a strat partscaster. Walnut body with maple cap. JB in the bridge, Custom in the neck & a SD singlecoil in the middle ( can't say which one now). I always here of people using 250K or 500K. Can these 100K's be used & if so what size cap to go with them. Just wondering if anyone had ever used any this small. Thanks. Cheers.
 
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I've seen pots with values that low, but usually with some type of active pickups. I would think they would suck the life out of any normal passive pickup.
 
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Mr B, thanks. Saved me the trouble of finding that out the hard way. Back into the parts drawer they go. Cheers.
 
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you might be able to use it for a tone pot, but definitely not for a volume pot.

not sure about cap value calculation if it was used as a tone pot.
 
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I like warm bridge HB's and P-90's, and use 250K's on most of them (which has stirred up arguments like you wouldn't believe). But even I don't really see any appeal to using 100K's with passive PU's.
 
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The old SD Active EQ "switch" bass pickups used a 100k pot for a basic treble roll off Tone control.
 
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Gibson used 100k pots for a while and IMO to terrible results...

FWIW, and IMHO lowering pot values are not the way to dial in pickups and no pot value tweaking will mask over a guitar that is bright by nature...
 
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cohara41 said:
DreX, do you have a wiring diagram for Spin a split? I'm willing to give it a go.
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Here's a diagram, the important part is the red and white wire and the pot they're connected to. Of course, with a single gang pot, you can only split one pickup, unless you have a super selector with room to spare, so that you can selectively expose the red+white wires to the spin a split pot, based on whichever pickup is selected. Also it says 500k for the pot value, but 100k is a much better value (at least for how it's wired here).

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