Pickup wiring help.

[Joris Van Dopre]

Dear people on the seymour duncan forum. I have a problem regarding my pickup wiring. I want to run an old blues humbucker in a hss-setup with a single push/pull volume with one tone. I would like to have the possibility to combine neck and bridge if i use to the push-pull knob. This is all configured with a five-way switch from stewmac.

I have tried to wire it and all three the pickups were working more or less. But it was a really weird dampened sound and the volume knob did not function properly. Everytime i touched the tone knob it made a weird clacking sound as if it was a pickup being touched by metal.
In the attachment you can see the wiring I ran and a more or less clean template you can paint up if you have an idea how to wire it .

With Kind Regards,
Joris

 

[Brandenburg]

Re: Pickup wiring help.

well i see your problem.. give me a second to make something happen..

 

[Brandenburg]

Re: Pickup wiring help.

i realize you are probably using a braided single conductor .. not really reflected in my drawing but i think this will help you

 

[Brandenburg]

Re: Pickup wiring help.

just saw something.. dont forget to ground the tone to the volume


missed it in my rush.. LOL

 

[Joris Van Dopre]

Re: Pickup wiring help.

just saw something.. dont forget to ground the tone to the volume


missed it in my rush.. LOL

Thank you very much for the help! Trying it out right now.
I was wondering if i have the braided single conductor if i have to connect a cable from the conductor cable to the push/pull part of the volume knob or how do i do wire it this way?

 

[Brandenburg]

Re: Pickup wiring help.

Thank you very much for the help! Trying it out right now.
I was wondering if i have the braided single conductor if i have to connect a cable from the conductor cable to the push/pull part of the volume knob or how do i do wire it this way?

simple.. wire the conductor to the common of the switch.. solder the braid to the pot.. get 2 appropriate sized pieces of wire.. strip and tin the ends.. 1 goes from the common to the 5 way.. other goers from the bottom lug of the switch to the same lug on the pot that the 5 way is connected too

that switch is bridge always-on.. pull it and this will give you two extra sounds.. N+M+B or N+B.. well if the 5 way is in position 1 or 2..

 

[Brandenburg]

Re: Pickup wiring help.

meant to add.. if the braid is giving you too much trouble.. just use the switch as a neck-always on by connecting the neck + wire to the switches common (middle lug)