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Help with wiring
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Help with wiring
Hey guys, a little help? I’m trying to recreate the old PRS wiring (rotary switch) but instead of the rotary, on a 5-way superswitch.
I managed to get almost everything but I can’t seem to figure out the series/parallel positions and it’s starting to hurt the brain. I’ve looked everywhere online but I can’t find exactly what I need.
Here’s the image of the positions I need, for reference.
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Some things I keep in mind when trying to figure out a switching scheme. If you want access to each coil in each humbucker then all the leads need to either be “lifted” (have there own switch tabs) or if using the typical humbucker wiring, ie red and white together on a Seymour, then you’ll need to be able to tap it and reverse the phase at the same time. Since you have a super switch, each coil can have it’s own pole and be “lifted”. Just follow the signal like it’s plumbing, water in water out.
If no one else replies with a schematic I’ll do one as soon as I sober up on Monday or tuesday.
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Maybe someone can double check my work (and point me towards a better paint program).
EDIT: I second guessed myself and deleted the post, then third guessed and I think it’s ok. No refunds if it isn’t.
EDIT EDIT: on 4th look it won’t work. Now I’m not sure that switch will get you what you want. This puzzle is going to haunt me all weekend. -
I think I finally got it. Let me know if you try it out.
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I was about to toss in my crude attempt at this diagram, but got here a bit late. I’ll post it anyway so it can be critiqued and/or corrected.
Edit: Absolutely not working as drawn for humbucker modes. Back to thinking.
Edit 2: I now see my other mistake was making positions 2 & 4 series and 3 parallel. Exactly opposite what was described. I blame the fact that I have also been thinking about an HSH setup with modified series switching.
Ignore this diagram, but I will leave it for archival reasons.
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Try this. It works on my prototyper so I hope I managed to get it drawn without any errors.
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Hey guys, thanks for the responses everyone! I hadn’t had the time to log in and check your diagrams. I just tried the last one (Gerry’s one) and it worked perfectly! Thank you very much Gerry.
I would love to say I was getting close but in all honestly I was way off. I saw Gerry’s video on complicated wirings and I understood everything a bit better, but a complicated wiring like this one really got out of my league. Which, by the way @gerryhayes if you guys could make another event where you can go deeper into this subject would be awesome, because (at least for me) even though I “kinda” understand what you did in your diagram, it really got me scratching my head quite a bit and I would love to understand it fully. So, just for your consideration 🙂
Thanks again everyone!
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