What a horrible over complicated bit of kit. I hate it, or more precisely I don't understand it and therefore hate it.
I bought some strat pickups and they came on a scratchplate with pluggy-inny bits all over. I figured that it would be fairly easy, just like wiring a guitar but without solder, but no, it is a horrendously scary thing with a million things to plug on to. I downloaded a pdf which is like 4pt text and full to the brim with jargon. Kill me now. Some of the wires had come adrift and unfortunately I have never been great with instructions.
Maybe you lot can make sense of this sort of thing, but it may as well be in Italian for me:
The 4-pin header labeled Bypass has 2 removeable shunts, one for each pickup signal. The shunt bypasses the EFX Send (S) and Return (R) headers and sends the pickup signals directly to the selection switch terminals. Only remove a shunt if you are using the Send and Return feature of the Switch Buss. If you are using passive tone controls the shunts need to be left in place.
so I either need to figure out something or bin they lot and buy some regular pots and a switch!
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Other than that just wire them like any other pickup in terms of hot and ground. The last quick connect I wired up was done by junking all that shit and just wiring them up as above
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My chief bugbear with the fully solderless EMG harnesses is the amount of cavity space the pins and block connectors occupy.
Seymour Duncan and Fishman Fluence manage perfectly well with skinner cables.
A potentiometer - or potential divider - has to have three connections because it gives an output which is a fractional division of the input, from 0 to 100%.
The casing is just a convenient ground point which also acts as a shield.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
And the bit about a fractional division of the input... I understand the words, but I'm still none the wiser
The way a potential divider works is actually quite simple -
Output voltage = input voltage x (resistance between output terminal and ground / resistance between input terminal and ground)
Does that help at all?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein