Hot Rails Tele wiring help, please

[Florin Giuglea]

Hi there,
I recently purchased the SD Tele Hot Rails.
I'm planning on using it with the Dimarzio Twang King in the neck, regular 3 position pup selector, no push/pull pot. Just volume and tone pots.
My question: How should I wire the HR? I would also like to know if it's possible to split the HR in the middle position of the pup selector and use the twang king, too.
I did this already on another tele using the Twang King and Chopper T using a wiring scheme Dimarzio sent me. I'm not familiar with SD products yet, nor the wiring color codes.
Thanks

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Hot Rails Tele wiring help, please

Welcome to the forum.

In answer to your first question, wire the SD HR neck PU according to the SD schematic diagram. The only possible problem when combining Duncan and DiMarzio PUs in the same guitar is the phase and magnetic polatity relationship betwen them.

Coil-spilitting is perfectly possible but will require either a more sophisticated selector switch or the push-pull pots that you hoped to avoid. (Actually, there is a way to do this with the standard three-way selector but I don't like it. Wedging the switch between the three official positions - a la old Stratocaster - causes weird $h1t to happen.)