Mini swich on-on-on...I neewd some help:)

[Squier13]

I am looking for a diagram to connect the neck attachment to the attachment
bridge using an on-on-on mini switch. I want to connect it to the bridge
two options... three in total, single and double single and humbucker.
I hope I can get help here. Thank you in advance

Squier13​

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Your request Is a little unclear to me - does the guitar have a bridge humbucker, and you want single/parallel/series switch settings?
How does the neck enter into it - you want middle position to be bridge split & neck single in parallel?
Or does the guitar have two singlecoils, and you want neck or bridge or both in series?

Either way, I don't believe this can be done with one center-on DPDT toggle.
I think it would require a rotary or a blade Superswitch, though perhaps a center-on 3PDT might work. (EDIT: if one exists.)

Still, I could be wrong. Hopefully a real wiring expert will step in soon.

 

[beaubrummels]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Squier13]

This is a typical Stratocaster with three singles and a five-way switch. The Neck pickup is to be additionally connected to the Bridgew pickup using an on-on-0n mini switch. The middle position of the mini switch is the Bridge single, the right position of the mini switch is Bridge plus Neck and the left position should turn the single into a humbucker. I had this before but I lost the diagram

 

[beaubrummels]

I don't see how to accomplish that with a typical DPDT switch. How many lugs did the previous switch have?

 

[Squier13]

I'm still talking about a typical on-on-on mini switch with six outputs from the bottom. With a 5-position pickup switch, the Stratocaster has 1(neck), 1+2(neck+midle), 2(midle), 2+3(midle+bridge) and 3(bridge)...and I want to use a mini switch on-on-on to add another 1+3(neck+bridge). The mini switch also gives options: on(1+3)- on(3)- on(1+3 humbucker) I can't be more specific.

 

[freefrog]

This is a typical Stratocaster with three singles and a five-way switch. The Neck pickup is to be additionally connected to the Bridgew pickup using an on-on-0n mini switch. The middle position of the mini switch is the Bridge single, the right position of the mini switch is Bridge plus Neck and the left position should turn the single into a humbucker. I had this before but I lost the diagram

If the guitar hosts single coils, how do you want to obtain "humbucker" operation from the bridge single coil? By putting it in series or parallel with a RWRP middle pickup? With a dummy coil?

And how neck + bridge would be connected? In series or parallel?

Anyway, I see how an ON-OFF-ON switch might be used to put the bridge pickup in parallel with the neck single coil OR with a noise cancelling dummy coil, while the center position would keep the bridge single coil enabled alone...

But at first glance, I'm like Beau': I don't grasp how an ON-ON-ON switch might be used to do what you want. :-/

Maybe one of our fellow members will chime with a solution...

 

[Squier13]

the diagram above shows the possibility of separating the humbucker into singles, so you can similarly connect two singles into a humbucker... if my reasoning is wrong, there is one more option... this option is a double single.=, instead of the humbucker I mentioned.

 

[freefrog]

the diagram above shows the possibility of separating the humbucker into singles, so you can similarly connect two singles into a humbucker... if my reasoning is wrong, there is one more option... this option is a double single.=, instead of the humbucker I mentioned.

Your reasoning is right. It's just that a lack of clear explanations don't help us to help you. ;-)

At least your last post suggests to me that you want to connect a single coil with another single coil, RWRP ("Reverse Wound & Reverse Polarity". As a matter of fact, you need a second single coil to be RWRP with a first one if you want both to form an humbucker).

As the RWRP single coil is usually the mid pickup, I deduce from your answers that you want a switch allowing to put the MID single coil in SERIES with the bridge one.

I still don't see how a 6 poles ON-ON-ON switch could do that AND put the bridge pickup in parallel with the neck one (I guess you want parallel wiring when adding the neck PU, because if it's in series, it's not different from the "humbucker" option that you evoked)... :scratchch



For the record, my main Strat is fitted with a push-pull tone pot that I've hacked to do what you appear to want: when I pull off the pot, it puts bridge and mid in series. The pot itself has been modified to be a no-load control and acts as a blender for the neck pickup, putting it in parallel with the bridge pickup... But I need two separate controls to do that (the pot itself AND the 2 positions push-pull switch under it).


Also keep in mind that mid + bridge in series in a Strat don't sound like a regular humbucker. It just gives a fatter version of position 2. It's usable for Brian May sounds, not much for more traditional tones (unless one moves the mid pickup just next to the bridge one, as on Robbie Robertson's Strat).