input jack soldering

[cementwave]

i just ordered 2 neck/middle vintage noiseless strat pickups and a little 59 brige and a tbx tone pot for my strat. now i have just a few problems. in the tbx wiring diagram it says that i need a ground lug connected to the selector which i did and one that just hangs off a wire i guess. which i need.

my biggest problem is that none of my diagrams tell my where to hook up the input jack. i have no idea. if any one could help that would be awesome.

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: input jack soldering

i just ordered 2 neck/middle vintage noiseless strat pickups and a little 59 brige and a tbx tone pot for my strat. now i have just a few problems. in the tbx wiring diagram it says that i need a ground lug connected to the selector which i did and one that just hangs off a wire i guess. which i need.

my biggest problem is that none of my diagrams tell my where to hook up the input jack. i have no idea. if any one could help that would be awesome.

All grounds go to the volume pot...Just ground your jack to the volume pot and you're grounded...

Maybe my tutorial would help? There's pictures...
http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/rsp.htm

 

[cementwave]

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that did help a little thanks. i was unclear before, on the tbx diagram it says that there are 2 ground lugs to be used. i only have one so i only used one. i was wondering if that would make a differance. the other thing is is that i dont know where to solder the input jack. i bought a new one so there are no wires on it.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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That web site, projectguitar.com, is great!

 

[cementwave]

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SOMEONE must have rewired and strat before. i need help please!

 

[Artie]

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You got ripped. Take the input jack back to the store and get an output jack. They're next to the left-handed crescent wrenches. :laugh2:

Seriously though, the jack should look like this:

Green arrows are ground, red arrows are "hot". There should only be two lugs to solder to.

Artie

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: input jack soldering

You got ripped. Take the input jack back to the store and get an output jack. They're next to the left-handed crescent wrenches. :laugh2:

Seriously though, the jack should look like this:

Green arrows are ground, red arrows are "hot". There should only be two lugs to solder to.

Artie

You Da Man Artie! :wink: :burnout:

 

[cementwave]

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ok, thank you. that did help, but i think im just going to give up on tbx pot.
i set it up the way it said, but im just going to use the pots my noiselesses came with i think.

 

[cementwave]

Re: input jack soldering

ok, so i put in the other pots, followed the instructions exactly and it says appsolutly nothing about where the input jack is supposed to go. i have no idea. put some wires where that diagram b on the project guitar website said to, and i tried hooking it up to the input jack several different ways.

what im trying to get at is that somebody out there has to have gotten the fender vintage noiseless pickups, so im asking how you hooked it up. PLEASE!!! i need to play guitar!!

 

[orbiter]

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http://fender.com/support/diagrams/

there are some very good diagrams over at fender ~>

 

[WhoFan]

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ok, thank you. that did help, but i think im just going to give up on tbx pot.
i set it up the way it said, but im just going to use the pots my noiselesses came with i think.

If you mean the pots that Fender uses with their Noiseless pickup guitars the tone pots are 1 meg and the Vol is a 500k.... i never cared for the 1 meg tone pots in those.... When i first heard about the noiseless pickups i ordered a set only to find that they were mistakenly shipping the sets with a wrong diagram and 3 1-meg pots...... man that 1 meg pot was awful for a volume controll! It just worked like an on/off switch

The Fender web site offers many diagrams... someone here posted a link. They are good diagrams (now that they fixed the noiseless diagrams).... But they do show where to put the live and ground wires on a jack as well.... www.stewmac.com offers some wiring diagrams as well and you can get them to mail you a little package of common diagrams.

WhoFan