My first diagram, did I miss anything?

[Wepeel]

Would this diagram work? I don't really understand much of wiring, so maybe everything about it is wrong or impossible.
I'm trying to achieve these positions:

1. Bridge (series)
2. Bridge (parallel) / Bridge (split to north/slug coil)
3. Bridge (split to north/slug coil) + Neck (split to north/slug coil) in parallel and out of phase (Flip the magnet on the neck pickup to keep it in phase?)
4. Neck (parallel) / Neck (split to north/slug coil)
5. Neck (series)

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: My first diagram, did I miss anything?

Seems like you are mixing definitions of series/parallel, making it hard to follow what you are trying to do. You can't have a single pickup be split and parallel, unless it's mixed with another pickup and those two pickups are in parallel with each other. But if your definition of parallel is between two pickups, then you also couldn't have a single pickup be series by itself, unless you were redefining series to mean just the coils of the pickups in series.

 

[Mincer]

Re: My first diagram, did I miss anything?

Welcome to the forum!

I am confused about positions 2 & 4 here. What you want isn't possible.

 

[Wepeel]

Re: My first diagram, did I miss anything?

Positions 2 and 4 are supposed to be the selected humbucker by itself in parallel and toggle into coil split with the push/pull pot.

1. Bridge (series)
2. Bridge (parallel)
3. Bridge (split to north/slug coil) + Neck (split to north/slug coil) in parallel and out of phase
4. Neck (parallel)
5. Neck (series)

And with the push/pull pot toggled:

2. Bridge (split to north/slug coil)
4. Neck (split to north/slug coil)

Positions 1, 3 and 5 remain the same.

 

[Artie]

Re: My first diagram, did I miss anything?

It's not a good idea to use a push-pull to go from parallel to split. (In fact, I don't think it's even possible.) You need to "split" from a series mode.

 

[Wepeel]

Re: My first diagram, did I miss anything?

Doesn't wiring the south start and north finish to ground, and the south finish and north start to output give you parallel? Why couldn't you use a push/pull to wire the south finish to ground to give you a split?

 

[Artie]

Re: My first diagram, did I miss anything?

In a normal series wired humbucker, black is hot, green is ground. Red/white short together. You split the HB'er by shorting red/white to ground. You've shorted out the "screw" coil.

In parallel, black/red go to hot. Green/white go to ground. So what do you short to ground? Green/white? Already there. Black/red? Then you've shorted out the whole dang game.

 

[Wepeel]

Re: My first diagram, did I miss anything?

Isn't that exactly what I did with the bridge pickup?

The reason the neck pickup has the white to hot, red to ground and black/green to ground for split is because it is supposed to be out of phase and still split to the slug coil. Reversing black and green would reverse the phase but split to the screw coil instead.