Capacitor location?

[cragga]

Hi

Firstly, thanks to everyone who helped out with my 500T pickup match question. I have gone with the a SD Jazz for the neck.

What I'm doing now is having 2 Alpha 500K log push/push pots for the tone pots to split the 500T in the bridge and the Jazz in the neck. I will be following the Seymour Duncan wiring diagram (obviously adapting the Gibson wiring colour code to match for the 500T).

What I have noticed opening up the control plate is that currently the 223 orange caps go from bridge tone to bridge vol pots and the other from neck tone to neck volume. The Seymour Duncan diagram shows the caps (.47) soldered from tone lug to tone base, in other words the cap stays wired to both tone pots.

So, my question is when I install the push/push tone pots can I still use the current existing 223 caps wired from volume to tone? Obviously with push/push pots they will have to be soldered to the side instead of the bottom.

Hope someone can help out?

Thanks

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Capacitor location?

One leg to ground
Doesnt marter which ground
Seymour grounds th back of the tone pot
If you use the back of the volume you wouldn't need that connection

Depending on the control layout you may not be able to reach
The volume pot

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Capacitor location?

If the capacitor for each pickup currently lies between the volume and tone pots for that pickup, I would leave it there. This saves finding additional cable. More importantly, the capacitors would not hinder access to the contacts on the push-pull pots.

 

[cragga]

Re: Capacitor location?

If the capacitor for each pickup currently lies between the volume and tone pots for that pickup, I would leave it there. This saves finding additional cable. More importantly, the capacitors would not hinder access to the contacts on the push-pull pots.

Hi

Thanks for all your replies.

Just got a little confused. Basically it's a les Paul, so each cap goes from bridge tone to bridge volume, and neck tone to neck volume.

Both tone pots will be replaced with a push/push pot each. So if I'm leaving each cap attached to their relative volume pots can I just solder the other ends of both caps to the side of the new push/push pots.

So in a nutshell, wired how it is at present but with new push/push pots?

Cheers

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Capacitor location?

Shoot yeah
Like that

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Capacitor location?

Yep.