Need help with wiring GFS Retrotron humbuckers and shadow electronics kill pot

[AdamPEI]

I have an old Yamaha pacifica 120s tele style guitar and the previous owner did not wire it correctly for his pickups. I did swap the stock 3 way switch for the seymour Duncan style but all I can find on these pickups are that they might have been made by SD as well.

I used the Seymour Duncan wiring diagram for 2 humbuckers, 1 tone 1 volume and a 3 way switch. Currently the guitar works at the bridge pickup bit not the killpot and middle is the same. The neck pickup however only works with the killpot button pressed in. My wiring is the same as the diagram. Any ideas?

 

[jeremy]

Re: Need help with wiring GFS Retrotron humbuckers and shadow electronics kill pot

how is the killpot wired in? im not familiar with it

 

[shadowfire90]

Re: Need help with wiring GFS Retrotron humbuckers and shadow electronics kill pot

I love the idea of a killpot. However I've found them really low quality. A friend had one for three months and had to already get it replaced it with another shadow killpot. It gave him so much trouble. I had some 1$ chinese momentary on/on switch laying around and he went with it instead. It's been a year and the cheap chinese killswitch stands. He played all over the city and doing covers of Buckethead or Rage Against The Machine with the killpot. you're going to be a lot more demanding of it than anything. With a killpot I've found the resistance to be much lower than specified. I've had better luck with import pots myself. One read 440k. Considering these pots are like 30$ that's inexcusable to me anyways.

This will help
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1...ll-pot-wiring-diagram_grande.jpg?v=1513379047


If the link dies and you want it as a master volume pot
the left contact on the killpot - to the left lug of your volume
the right contact on your killpot - to the right lug of your volume


This is how I did the two in the guys guitars. There are two ways to do 3 way blades. However with import 3 way blades there is a possibility it only has one pole. Either way this is a good start.
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