Push/Pull What??

[PDXFX]

Hey SD forum visitors!

I have some guitar electronics knowhow, but my I foolishly agreed to wire in an arduous (to someone of my skill level) pickup setup for a close friend. I tried to follow some diagrams and have come up short 2 different tries, so I turn here. I am just now learning that a push/pull is a DPDT essentially. I'm familiar with them from pedal building, but in guitars this is new to me.

What I have:

SH-6 Neck and Bridge
3-way toggle
(2) 500K Push pull pots
473K cap


What I'm hoping to do:

Volume Pot: Coil tap both pickups
Tone Pot: Switch between series/parallel in the neck pickup

I'm wondering if this is possible, being that a solid 50% of it is flying over my head, I didn't know all this was possible. And what role does the 3-way selector switch play in the whole thing?

Thank you guys so much in advance!
-Andy

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Push/Pull What??

There are all kinds of wiring diagrams here: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/
There might not be a single diagram having exactly what you are trying to do, but you can combine elements of several to get there.

 

[AlexR]

Re: Push/Pull What??

If you consider the push pull pot as a switch + a pot just in one enclosure, then wiring gets easier. You have to wire up both separately and independently for it to work.

There are plenty of diagrams of coil splits and series/parallel, either on their own or in a diagram. If you wire the regular diagram based on the selector switch type and the number of volume and tone pots, then add the coil switching part to that it makes the whole scheme easier to understand.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Push/Pull What??

What I'm hoping to do:

Volume Pot: Coil tap both pickups
Tone Pot: Switch between series/parallel in the neck pickup

I'm wondering if this is possible

Well, actually, it's not possible. (Unless your pups have a second lead wire coming off of one of the coils that has been "tapped" into the winding somewhere between the start and finish of each coil). But don't be too disappointed, it IS possible to do a coil split on each of your pups.

I'm checking on a diagram which I'll have for you in a couple minutes.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Push/Pull What??

OK, it's not possible to get exactly what you want unless you are using a DPDT on-on-on switch. But with 2 typical push/pull switches you have two options. You can get series, parallel, split to screw coil, or split to slug coil using this diagram (it shows two P-Rails pups but you can just substitute regular humbuckers instead):

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2_prails_1v_1t_tspp

Or you can get coil split of bridge pup only and series/parallel of neck pup using a combination of these two diagrams:

Bridge split:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=1hum_1vol_1tone_split

Neck series/parallel:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=1h_1v_1t_sp

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Push/Pull What??

Or you can just mount your pups in Triple Shot mounting rings and get everything on each pup.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/acce...iple-shot-carved-top-pickup-mounting-ring-set

 

[PDXFX]

Re: Push/Pull What??

GuitarDoc,

Thank you SO much! I'm gonna try to wrap my mind around this and get back to you. New ground takes twice as long to cover, but I'm chugging along.

Thanks again everyone who replied,
Andy