Is it possible to set up a 2-humbucker guitar that allows both humbuckers to be selected as normal as well as allowing coil splitting to specific coils?
For example, somehow being able to split to the screw coils then switch to the slug coils?
Essentially I want it the way it as at the moment, which is with a switch that splits to the screw coils but also with the added option of being able to split to the slug coils if I so choose.
Perhaps with a combination of a superswitch and push-pull switches?
Hopefully I've described what I'm after clearly enough.
Cheers.
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The first switch selects whether the coil-split junction is connected to the second switch, and the second switch selects either hot or ground for the connection.
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I've been looking at the SD wiring diagrams that show how to set up coil splits for either the inner or outer coils and it would involve changing a few wires at once so I can't work out how this would be achieved.
Any chance you could give me a bit more direction?
You can do this for both pickups at the same time with DPDT switches, which are standard for push-pulls.
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I've got 2 3p2t switches to do parallel/screwcoil/series for both pickups. It works but it is on a guitar that I didn't mind altering the look.
Guitar electronics.com has lots of free diagrams.
i would strongly recommend putting them on upside down (with the switches at the bottom) though - I found the micro switches dug into the side of my hand while I was playing with them the "right" way round.
Thanks mate.
And thanks to ICBM as well, very knowledgeable and helpful guy.
Have they made a mistake with that series switch by not connecting two of the lugs together?
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What you're doing is wiring both halves of the switch in parallel, which eliminates a possible bad contact in either side. The standard way of simply joining both terminals means that a bad contact in one will stop it working.
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