Wiring help, please.

[diegosantos]

So, I have a Distortion Trembucker on the bridge, a JB Jr in the middle and a 59 on the neck, all with four conductors.

At my disposal, I have one 5 way switch, and two push pull pots.

Is there a way to wire two push pull pots so I can choose between series or parallel for the 3 PUs?

I mean, I don't need individual control over each one of them to be series or parallel, I would be happy with all series or all parallel at the same time as long as my 5 way switch keeps working as usual so I can choose which pu to use, but I wanted a way to use only two push pull pots to switch 3 humbuckers to series or parallel.

Of course, one of the pots would be used for master volume control and the other for master tone control.

Is it possible, or do I need one dpdt for each pu?

Thanks in advance.

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[Artie]

Re: Wiring help, please.

Is it possible, or do I need one dpdt for each pu?

Unfortunately, yes. You need one DPDT for each pup in order to do parallel.

 

[diegosantos]

Re: Wiring help, please.

Oh... That's unfortunate. Maybe I'll just try to parallel the bridge and neck PUs then... Or maybe I'll buy one or two more push pull pots and try something crazier. Don't know if there's room for two more though, maybe just one.

Anyway, thank you very much for your answer. I really appreciate it!

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[Artie]

Re: Wiring help, please.

There may be another solution. What kind of axe is it?

 

[diegosantos]

Re: Wiring help, please.

There may be another solution. What kind of axe is it?

Sorry, English isn't my first language and I had to Google to understand what you meant by axe. If Google is right, you're talking about the guitar itself, so the answer is a Cort X11 2006 model. I changed the pickups and the bridge, but the construction is very similar to the one in the attached image. One 5 way switch, one master volume pot and one push pull pot for tone and pup splitting originally. I wanted to change the original volume pot for another push pull and try to use the two push pulls for choosing between parallel and series instead of splitting. Since my middle pup is a single coil sized humbucker (JB Jr) I had the hope to be able to choose between series and parallel for all three of them. But right now I'm thinking of just leaving the JB Jr alone and only do the trick for the bridge and neck pups.
I think there is room to install a third pot in between the two already there, so if you have some tips for me, I'd be very grateful.

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[Artie]

Re: Wiring help, please.

Sorry. Your English is so good, I just assumed. But, you are correct. I meant what guitar. My other idea won't work with that guitar. I thought you might have had a Stratocaster, where you could sacrifice one tone knob for a switch. But, that's not the case.

 

[SkyMonkey]

Re: Wiring help, please.

On the GuitarElectronics site there are diagrams for a 2 humbucker wiring that has a master series parallel with a dual coil tap using 2 push pulls: https://guitarelectronics.com/2-hum...tch-1-volume-1-tone-coil-tap-series-parallel/
Could this be altered to control series parallel for 2 of the humbuckers (e.g. Distortion & '59) on one push pull, with the other for the JB jr? https://guitarelectronics.com/1-humbucker-1-volume-series-parallel/

 

[diegosantos]

Re: Wiring help, please.

Sorry. Your English is so good, I just assumed. But, you are correct. I meant what guitar. My other idea won't work with that guitar. I thought you might have had a Stratocaster, where you could sacrifice one tone knob for a switch. But, that's not the case.

Don't worry man, I'm very grateful for your attempt to help. Once again, thank you, very much!

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[diegosantos]

Re: Wiring help, please.

On the GuitarElectronics site there are diagrams for a 2 humbucker wiring that has a master series parallel with a dual coil tap using 2 push pulls: https://guitarelectronics.com/2-hum...tch-1-volume-1-tone-coil-tap-series-parallel/
Could this be altered to control series parallel for 2 of the humbuckers (e.g. Distortion & '59) on one push pull, with the other for the JB jr? https://guitarelectronics.com/1-humbucker-1-volume-series-parallel/

Thanks for the answer. As soon as I have some more free time, I'm gonna study these schematics to see what I can do.
I really appreciate the fact you took some of your time to help me. Thanks a lot!

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