Wiring Diagram Needed For HSH.

[charlemetallica]

Hello Seymour Duncan Forum,

I need a diagram for HSH that give me this configuration:
Position 1 : Bridge Full humbucker
Position 2 : Bridge outer coil split with middle.
Position 3 : Bridge outer coil split with middle with neck outer coil split ( 3 Singles mode )
Position 4 : Neck outer coil split with middle.
Position 5 : Neck full humbucker.

The closest diagram to what i need is HSH auto split , but position 3 you get only the middle single coil , but i need a mod to activate middle with a coil from the bridge and a coil from the neck ( 3 singles all together) Awaiting for your help guys. thx.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Wiring Diagram Needed For HSH.

Sorry, you can't get what you want without an additional switch.

 

[charlemetallica]

Re: Wiring Diagram Needed For HSH.

Thank you GuitarDoc for your reply ,

Can you supply me with how can i do it , do i need a push pull switch? or 24 legs 5 way super switch ?

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Wiring Diagram Needed For HSH.

You'll need a super switch AND a p/p or toggle switch.

 

[Liko]

Re: Wiring Diagram Needed For HSH.

Sorry, you can't get what you want without an additional switch.

I think you actually could do it with a 4P5T superswitch, if the OP were OK with having the humbucker positions put the coils in parallel. The way I'm thinking of would essentially use one set of contacts per pickup (so the bridge contacts would jumper positions 1-3 to the outer bridge coil, the middle contacts would jumper positions 2-4, etc) with the inner coils of the humbuckers wired to unused position 1 and 5 contacts (you could for instance wire position 1 of the neck pickup terminal set to the bridge inner coil and vice-versa, or wire both inner coils to the outer terminals controlling the middle pickup). If you're fine with all pickups always being in parallel, just jumper all the common terminals. The last terminal set can be used as the tone selector if you want a two-tone setup like a traditional Strat; if you want a VT setup like most non-Fender HSHs, just wire a lead off any common terminal to the tone pot.

If you want the humbuckers in series, I'm holding out hope (though I don't have time to work it out now) that the fourth contact set could be used for the purpose, but I think GuitarDoc's right that the more logical setup would be a separate series-parallel switch. You could set this up by connecting the middle and inner coils' grounds to the superswitch instead of hots, then the common of that terminal set would feed a garden-variety DPDT S/P switch as the output to the second coil in the series (the other terminals' commons would be the input from the first coil and you'd wire an output to volume and to ground in the normal way). The hot leads could either be wired to the last terminal set, identically to the setup for the ground leads with the common going to the volume (so the switch connects/disconnects both sides of each coil as needed), or all the inner coil hots could be wired directly to the volume if you want that fourth set for tone selection (this should still correctly select the correct coil and open the ground on the other two but it's not true bypass). The behavior of this circuit in "series" mode would place whichever "inner" coil the switch is selecting in series with any other selected "outer" coil (so in 3 series mode, neck and bridge are in parallel to each other and in series with the middle, which will emphasize the middle pickup, while in 2 and 4 the circuit is more conventional).

 

[Brandenburg]

Re: Wiring Diagram Needed For HSH.

shouldnt be too hard..

user either a schaller mega E switch or a super switch.. id make the switch a middle for always-on..and wire the superswitch, so that the 2 humbuckers are split in the 3rd position.. no need to do this with the schaller mega e switch though as thats how its internally wired.. not sure if they are split though
thats only one solution an is the easiest to implement imo

I personally like to split with switches instead of doing so with a super switch