Gigabyte Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 (edited) Well, I've been screwing with these darn Duncan designed pickups (HB103-B & N);trying to put them in my PRS clone project. I've been playing with them for a couple of hours now and just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. What I have is a volume, a push-pot tone/coil tap, and a 3 way switch. Anyway, the pickups are five wires and I converted them to 3 (white +red, green + bare wire, and the black). I hook the blacks to the 3 way, the gr./bare to the back of the volume pot (grounded), and the red/white to the coil tap. Everything works perfect; coil tap works, tone works and everything. BUT, the friggin volume is acting like the tone. I even tried completely disconnecting the tone and it still did the same thing (no caps anywhere). I also completely switched pots and tried it without the coil tap (just a regular 1 volume, 1 tone and 3 way setup with 2 humbuckers) and it still did the same thing.... Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I'm tired of fooling with it and I could use some help.... BTW, I'm basically wiring it like a JS100............. except with no hi-pass filter. Here's a diagram of a JS100 for reference: http://www.ibanez.com/wiring/wire.asp?y=2004&w=JS100 Thanks for any help you can give me....... Fred Edited February 27, 2005 by Gigabyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 Check the ground on your volume pot - it sounds like you don't have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigabyte Posted February 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 (edited) Thanks for replying. The grounds I have going to the volume pot are the bridge ground, the grounds from the 2 pickup wires (green and bare wires), one from the side of the tone pot and the one going to the output jack. Did I miss one somewhere? Maybe I didn't solder one of them good enough....... Edited February 27, 2005 by Gigabyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasteven Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 You need to solder the ground lug on the volume pot to the back as well, or any ground point you want, for that matter. The ground lug is usually the one on the very left, if you were looking down on the back with the lugs pointing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigabyte Posted February 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 Yes, I did that as well. Maybe I just didn't get good contact somewhere. I'm going to start over and see what happens............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigabyte Posted February 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 (edited) Just rewired it and it works just fine now. Wonder what it was......beats me...... Thanks for the input guys...... It sure does sound purdy! Looks pretty good too if I do say so myself Edited February 27, 2005 by Gigabyte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 It was a bad ground - congrats on an easy fix! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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