Need help wiring a H, H, H guitar with concentric pots .

[maug2122]

I have a guitar that routed for an H,H,H pickup configuration, with a Fender style five way switch and three 500k ohms concentric ( stacked knobs ) pots .
I wonder if someone can donate a diagram of how to wire the top knob to be the volume and bottom knob to control the tone and where to wire the 0.22 mf caps .

Any help would be appreciated .:help:

 

[Artie]

On a concentric pot, top shaft goes to bottom pot, and inner shaft goes to inner pot. (Green to green arrows, and red to red arrows.)

Then wire it like shown on the right. If you want "independent" volumes, then reverse input & output connections. Tone pots will always be interactive. No way around that.

 

[beaubrummels]

For consideration, I would make the top the tone and the bottom the volume. The reason is the volume is used more frequency and it's easier to use the bottom/outside knob on a concentric.

 

[Artie]

If you decide to do that, then do this:

 

[maug2122]

Wow !!!!
Thank you :laugh2: !!!!
Would I have to wire each pot with a cap ?

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Not necessarily. You could use one cap for all, but it would need to be wired a little differently.
The volume sections would need their own ground connection, rather than being jumpered to the ground lugs of the tone sections.
And the ground lugs of the tone sections would be connected together to the cap, which in turn would connect to ground.

 

[Artie]

If you can tell us what you decided as per V-top/T-bottom, or vice-versa, and normal or independent volumes, I can draw you a new diagram with the single cap.

 

[maug2122]

If you can tell us what you decided as per V-top/T-bottom, or vice-versa, and normal or independent volumes, I can draw you a new diagram with the single cap.

Wow , thank you very much !!!!

 

[Artie]

Wow , thank you very much !!!!

Yur welcome . . . but you still need to tell us. :scratchch

 

[beaubrummels]

I recommend tone top, volume bottom, like Artie's second picture. The volume is used most often, and physics tells you it's easier to turn the outer knob because you'll have more leverage.

 

[jeremy]

its also easier to grab on the fly i think, thats the way ive always wired em