Hot rail wired in parallel for middle/neck

[panamang]

Have a converted HSS strat with a hot full size humbucker in bridge. With the bridge position now taken, I have no home for my Hot Rails. Wondering if I can use it in the middle or neck position if it is wired up parallel to cut the heat? Too hot otherwise but I sure hate to have to dump a nice pup.

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Hot rail wired in parallel for middle/neck

I like the paralel idea and will give you a very simple mod suggestion that gives me a lot of variance in a neck cool rail...

(assuming your neck pup is also dual rail) wire all your pups up for spin a split OFF OF ONE POT- I bounced into this by accident because my Zion bardens happned to be wired this way and find the sounds incredible.

What you will get is one rail of each pup on in paralel, and the 5 way will pick which of the other coils get added in while the spin detirmeins how much of the 2nd rail is added- It reduces the power of the pups, and gives a really clear articulate sound much like a more extreme 2 or 4 position, but by using a littel bit of 2nd coil you get a beefier strat sound as well.

I love these sounds so much that I use them 90% of the time- But it's also easy to put a bypass in and I did this on my parker- If you do this you would still be able to go full power on the hot rails and it's been wonederful with my cool rails as it's a lot like a 'blower' swtich-

Again this is a really simple mod and glad to give you more if you are intersted-

 

[panamang]

Re: Hot rail wired in parallel for middle/neck

Cool idea about the spin-a-split and yes I have dual rail neck pup. Can you send schematic or a link?

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Hot rail wired in parallel for middle/neck

Here's teh link from teh SD site for the 'normal' wiriing- http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/sum96tip.shtml
The only differnce is that I have 3 pups all grounding red and whites off of this same pot so there is "cross polination"

Here's the thread where Artie explained that by grounding out red and white wires I was actually getting parallel-

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=37199&highlight=artie

Few more on spin idea-
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?p=474812#poststop
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=48648

This make sense?

 

[panamang]

Re: Hot rail wired in parallel for middle/neck

Makes all the sense in the world. Thanks Zionstrat!

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Hot rail wired in parallel for middle/neck

Anytime, but too bad that it appears arties diagrams have died-

It was fun to reread that thread- When I bypassed the spin with a push pull, my cool rails became surprisingly hot (as strong as my JB in the bridge) but that's the 'blower' setting that I have come to love since-

Good luck!