Question about mixing 250K and 500K push/pull pot

[pupN00b]

Hello everyone! n00b here. Well, I can solder and follow directions, but that's about it. I have a few questions for something I'm working on.

I'm setting up:

• HSS guitar with 1 volume, 2 tone, Schaller Megaswitch S in HSS2 configuration
• Pickups: Custom Custom humbucker and two Classic Stack Plus singles

I was planning on going with 250K pots all around. Then I had the idea to use a push/pull to kill the middle single coil when in position 2 on the Megaswitch S HSS2 configuration
https://schaller.info/en/hss

I also need long shaft pots for this guitar and all I can seem to find for a long shaft push/pull is here and it's 500K:.
https://www.stewmac.com/electronics/...pots-spst.html

So here's my questions:

1. I was planning on putting the push/pull on the volume knob--assuming I can't find a 250K long shaft push/pull, should I buy this 500K pot and put a resistor on it knocking it down to 250K? Or just leave it at 500K?
2. Or maybe I can use this 500K push/pull as the tone knob for the humbucker? I could still easily wire it to kill the middle pup this way

As you can see, I am using a mixed humbucker/single coil setup, so I am not sure the implication of using a 500K in either the volume or tone position when the other positions are 250K.

Thanks for any insight!

 

[Artie]

250k push-pull pots are fairly easy to find:

https://guitarelectronics.com/cts-250k-audio-taper-pot-w-push-pull-switch/

https://guitarelectronics.com/bourns-250k-audio-guitar-pot-w-push-pull-switch/

 

[pupN00b]

250k push-pull pots are fairly easy to find:

https://guitarelectronics.com/cts-250k-audio-taper-pot-w-push-pull-switch/

https://guitarelectronics.com/bourns-250k-audio-guitar-pot-w-push-pull-switch/

As I was saying in my post, I need long shaft pots for this guitar. The ones you linked to are 3/8" length shaft and I need the 3/4" shaft. I've only been able to find 500K 3/4" shaft push/pull pots, which was the link I provided in my post.

 

[Artie]

I don't think I've ever noticed that before. If you want long-shaft, I guess they assume LP, and therefore, 500k. Sorry.

 

[jeremy]

i dont know if ive seen long shaft 250k p/p pots, but i was able to find 25k p/p pots so who knows

 

[pupN00b]

Thanks for helping out y'all. I think I've pretty much determined that long shaft 250K p/p pots don't exist already---so do you have any insight on my two alternative options I was thinking about? I can put a resistor on a 500K pot to knock it down to 250K, or maybe I could use the 500K p/p pot for the humbucker tone, but I have no idea what the effect of that would be in relation to the two 250K pots and overall sound. Any ideas?

 

[jeremy]

i think running the 500k p/p as the bucker tone makes sense. i dont like p/p pots on the volume knob since i use it so much. a 500k tone on the cc will be fine, its a pretty warm pup anyway so a little extra might be a good thing

 

[Artie]

Mouser does have them. Not sure if the "filters" carry through to my link. If not, just select Bourns, 250k, and push-pull.

https://www.mouser.com/Bourns/Passi...s/_/N-9q0yp?P=1y92ddkZ1yzekiqZ1z0zlsdZ1yiecv2

 

[pupN00b]

Mouser does have them. Not sure if the "filters" carry through to my link. If not, just select Bourns, 250k, and push-pull.

https://www.mouser.com/Bourns/Passi...s/_/N-9q0yp?P=1y92ddkZ1yzekiqZ1z0zlsdZ1yiecv2

WOW! Awesome website! They definitely have 19mm p/p Bourns. Thanks for showing me this, it will be my go-to now.

 

[Artie]

Cool. And if you create a free log-in, you can save projects and re-order things that you've ordered before, so you don't have to search.

 

[jeremy]

mouser is great for finding odd ball stuff