Wiring an import 5 way switch

Re: Wiring an import 5 way switch

As you can see I wired the switch exactly like the diagram. however, the switch had a spot for a ground wire on the top right in the picture. There is currently an old cut off wire attached to it. Should I be running a ground wire from this switch to something?
 
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Bump, for answers on grounding the 5 way switch. I have it wired exactly as it is in the diagram. I make no assumptions because I don't know much about electronics. Do I need to run a ground wire from this 5 way to the back of a pot?
 
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Your pickguard has grounding tape on it and theoretically you need not do any more grounding. But if you have any noise issues, it won't hurt to run a wire from the switch to the back of a pot.
 
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Help! I just fired up this guitar and the bridge pickup is not working. It is a GFS Lil Killer. From what I understand I was to wire it exactly as I would a seymour duncan. My wiring for this guitar is identical to the last wiring diagram on page 1 of this thread. I have the red/white wires running to the middle position in the mini toggle. I have the green and bare wires grounded. I have the black wire in position 1 on the switch.

When I flip around on the switch I hear the neck alone, hum cancelling on neck/middle combined, middle alone, NO hum cancelling on middle/bridge combined, and nothing on the bridge. Please help me narrow down the options. What if I was to remove white/red from the mini toggle to eliminate the mini toggle as the problem? Any other trouble shooting suggestions?
 
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Yep, on GFS humbuckers, green is hot, black is ground. Red and white go together and taped.
 
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After switching, all pickups are audible. now the issue is that the bridge pickup toggle switch goes from single coil to kill. No humbucking sound. I wired the red/white in the middle and a ground wire to one of the side lugs. Does it matter which lug the ground wire goes to on the mini toggle?
 
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Does it make sense to just bypass the mini toggle for now? If I did that I would basically just have a humbucking sound in the bridge?
 
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Toggle switch removed. Bridge pickup not working at all now. It is not the toggle. Is it possible the switch is not working? Or the humbucker itself?
 
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I wired the mini again since it is working. When I have the 5 way switch on middle/bridge I get a very full sound (with hum) with one toggle position, and a very phase inverted sound (no hum) in the other. As stated before, when in bridge only position I get single coil or kill with the mini toggle.
 
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Bump. I'm probably going to buy a new switch. If the problem persists with the new switch, what is next?
 
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I installed a new 5 way switch. Exact same problem persists. No humbucking. What else could it possibly be? If the pickup is coming through split, but not in humbucking then we are only talking about the red and white wires here right? Is it possible one of them has severed somewhere? They certainly look fine from what i can see. ****! I'm going to go bottle some beer.
 
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I am not joking, I had a dream last night that someone gave me some advice on this thread that solved the problem. Needless to say, I'm very disappointed this morning.
 
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I cleaned up all of my ground wires. I have the output jack and bridge grounded to the tone pot. I have the pickup ground wires (black and bare for lil' killer, bare for single coils) grounded to the volume pot. I have a ground wire running from volume to tone. I have the switch wired exactly like it is in the last duncan diagram in this thread. Bridge only position on the switch yeilds either single coil or kill. The only possible problems that I can think of are:
1) bad pickup (wires somehow got cut inside the tape or along the tube)
2) I'm not wiring the 5 way switch correctly.

Happy new year!
 
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