Superlead777
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both humbuckers in my Les Paul on at all times ,switch doesn't "work" also noisy..any ideas?
Wiring issue,....
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Superlead777
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Re: Wiring issue,....
re-wired just recently,but sounded better before.....
re-wired just recently,but sounded better before.....
Superlead777
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Re: Wiring issue,....
should also say that volumes & tones don't do anything (no change in volume or tone when turned..) & switch acts non-existent....
should also say that volumes & tones don't do anything (no change in volume or tone when turned..) & switch acts non-existent....
DrNewcenstein
He Did the Monster Mash
Re: Wiring issue,....
Could also be the switch's contact plates are bent. Depending on the switch design, the inner plates touch to make contact and therefore you get sound. On others, you get sound when those plates are not touching.
In the center position, the plates on both sides will either be touching or not touching. Figure out which one you have and take a pencil eraser and gently push the contact plates toward or away from each other (whichever you got) and see if anything changes.
However, it's most likely what edwhuld said - stray hot wire on the jack connection.
Could also be the switch's contact plates are bent. Depending on the switch design, the inner plates touch to make contact and therefore you get sound. On others, you get sound when those plates are not touching.
In the center position, the plates on both sides will either be touching or not touching. Figure out which one you have and take a pencil eraser and gently push the contact plates toward or away from each other (whichever you got) and see if anything changes.
However, it's most likely what edwhuld said - stray hot wire on the jack connection.
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Funkfingers
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Re: Wiring issue,....
Something obviously is not grounded. Volume and tone pots act by diverting signal to ground. You appear to have completely bypassed yours.
The normal LP signal path is PU > Pots > Selector > Jack socket. How much of the original wiring loom did you disassemble? I can imagine several possible mix ups that could have occured. Pics would help everybody.
EDIT: Here is a quick, if demented, suggestion. Have you inadvertantly soldered the hot wires from the PUs to the grounding legs of the volume pots and the grounding wires from the PUs to the input terminals of the volume pots. "Curing" this error by reversing the connections to the output jack socket would produce a direct-to-jack signal path with no response from the controls and lousy shielding.
Something obviously is not grounded. Volume and tone pots act by diverting signal to ground. You appear to have completely bypassed yours.
The normal LP signal path is PU > Pots > Selector > Jack socket. How much of the original wiring loom did you disassemble? I can imagine several possible mix ups that could have occured. Pics would help everybody.
EDIT: Here is a quick, if demented, suggestion. Have you inadvertantly soldered the hot wires from the PUs to the grounding legs of the volume pots and the grounding wires from the PUs to the input terminals of the volume pots. "Curing" this error by reversing the connections to the output jack socket would produce a direct-to-jack signal path with no response from the controls and lousy shielding.
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