Ok so I goofed on switch selection...Help wiring gurus!

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madstrummer

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I just purchased 2 mini toggles to wire up some series/parallel/split options The toggles are ON/OFF/ON, and I should have purchased ON/ON/ON switches.
I checked the Duncan schematics and there is no reference to any ON/OFF/ON switches.
Can I use these? If so what for? If not, why are they sold from guitar pickup suppliers?
 
Re: Ok so I goofed on switch selection...Help wiring gurus!

What guitar are you wanting to use these in? What pickups?
 
Re: Ok so I goofed on switch selection...Help wiring gurus!

Some custom hollowbody that I built. I already tried coil splitting, but was thinking for even more tones I could rewire things up again and buy some more switches.
Is there anything I could use on/off/on switches for?
The pickups are a '59 neck, Custom V bridge.
 
Re: Ok so I goofed on switch selection...Help wiring gurus!

i use an on-off-on in my HSH guitar it lets me select which coil i split .. green to one side (and ground) .. red and white to the middle .. black to the other side (and switch) .. in the off position, it is a full humbucker ... when 'up' it is the slug coil and when 'down' it is the screw coil
i used the same 2 pups you are talking about for neck and bridge .. i did a mag flip in the 59 and wired it backwards from the side with the C5 (both on the same on-off-on) .. so this let me get the PRS styled 'inner' and 'outer' coils in parallel while retaining hum cancelling ... i like it :D

hope this helps

t4d
 
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Re: Ok so I goofed on switch selection...Help wiring gurus!

I use on-off-on's quite a bit. For a humbucker, they allow north/full/south coil splitting. For tapped singles, they allow full/off/tapped operation. I have two guitars with these very switches now. ;)

They could also be used on a tone control to switch between .022/off/.047 caps.

Using a stereo output jack, a pup could go left/off/right.

Lots of uses. ;)
 
Re: Ok so I goofed on switch selection...Help wiring gurus!

ArtieToo said:
I use on-off-on's quite a bit. For a humbucker, they allow north/full/south coil splitting. For tapped singles, they allow full/off/tapped operation. I have two guitars with these very switches now. ;)

They could also be used on a tone control to switch between .022/off/.047 caps.

Using a stereo output jack, a pup could go left/off/right.

Lots of uses. ;)
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WOW that is awesome. I am very interested in the north/full/south mod
How is it done? I totally understand the whole split thing, but only ONE of the coils.
Any help is way appreciated!
 
Re: Ok so I goofed on switch selection...Help wiring gurus!

tone4days said:
i use an on-off-on in my HSH guitar it lets me select which coil i split .. green to one side (and ground) .. red and white to the middle .. black to the other side (and switch) .. in the off position, it is a full humbucker ... when 'up' it is the slug coil and when 'down' it is the screw coil
i used the same 2 pups you are talking about for neck and bridge .. i did a mag flip in the 59 and wired it backwards from the side with the C5 (both on the same on-off-on) .. so this let me get the PRS styled 'inner' and 'outer' coils in parallel while retaining hum cancelling ... i like it :D

hope this helps

t4d
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Brilliant. I'll try this. I honestly had no idea... Thanks!
 
Re: Ok so I goofed on switch selection...Help wiring gurus!

it's time for tone4days' mad mad mad mad ASCII art class - ready kids! :D

today's lesson is how to wire an on-off-on mini-toggle switch for "north-full-south" coil splitting ... when doing it with TWO 4-wire double coil pickups at once, and a little magnet flipping, you can recreate the PRS style inner-parallel and outer-parallel options ...

Bb = Black wire from bridge pickup
Bn = Black wire from neck pickup
Gb = green wire from bridge pickup
Gn = green wire from neck pickup
RWb = red/white pair from bridge pickup
RWn = red/white pair from neck pickup


Bb == ==>[]---[]<====Gn

RWb====>[]---[]<====RWn

Gb == ==>[]---[]<====Bn

- the blue lines between the posts mean nothing - do not connect wires here
- flip the magnet on one pickup
- take the Gn and Bb to ground
- take the Gb and Bn to the switch

good luck
have fun
t4d
 
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