P90s pot values for Tone. Opinions please

stonevibe

I have a rather nice Edwards LP Custom with Seymour Duncan P90s. 

It has had some Orange Drop caps added by previous owner and I notice that the 'Tone' pots are 250k. I was thinking that 500k would give me some more 'bite' perhaps and maybe a bit more taper to play with.

So thought I would ask your opinions on whether or not they would benefit from me swapping out the tone pots.

EDIT

Either way the 500k are going in as I just broke one of the 250k pots when I pulled the knob off. Bloody post pulled right out of the casing!

ICBM

Yes, 500Ks (with .022uF tone caps) are the standard values for P90s. It's nothing to do with being a 'single coil', it's the inductance of the pickup that matters, and a P90 is much more like a humbucker than a Fender-type single coil.

stonevibe

I did wonder why they had used 250K pots? I always thought they were for Fender single coils.

Cheers fella!

As always you're a wealth of good knowledge. 

Even if you do prefer Jags over Jazzmasters... 

stonevibe

Yup. That is a more what I wanted out of a tone pot.

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ICBM

What value are the volume pots? They should be 500s as well.

stonevibe

They have no markings on the tops and I can't see the sides of them. I presumed they would be 500K as I know a lot of manufacturers use 500K and 250K with P90s for some reason.

Either way I'll ditch them soon. I just had the two 500k pots left in my parts draw or I would have done the lot.