4p3t Rotary Schematic Help

[jpmarsh]

So after a few days of searching high and low for some wiring help on the net...I feel the need to just ask and see if someone here can help me out.

I want to do a really simple wiring. 2 Seymour HBs, 1 volume, 1 tone, 1 4P3T rotary switch to take the place of a standard toggle switch. No push/pull, nothing fancy. Does anyone have or can point me towards a wiring diagram of this? The rotary has thrown me for a loop as I've never wired one before.

[JohnH]

So after a few days of searching high and low for some wiring help on the net...I feel the need to just ask and see if someone here can help me out.

I want to do a really simple wiring. 2 Seymour HBs, 1 volume, 1 tone, 1 4P3T rotary switch to take the place of a standard toggle switch. No push/pull, nothing fancy. Does anyone have or can point me towards a wiring diagram of this? The rotary has thrown me for a loop as I've never wired one before.

So it would be three positions, Bridge, Bridge + Neck, Neck?

That will work fine. your rotary switch will probably have 4 inner lugs, one for each pole, and 12 outer lugs being 3 lug connections for each pole. You should identify which lugs connect to each pole, visually or with a meter. They should be the 3 nearest outer ones for each inner pole.

call the inner poles 1, 2, 3 and 4

call the outer lugs 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B....etc corresponding to three switch positions A, B and C

You only need two poles, so ignore half the switch

Wire your pickups: ground to guitar ground, bridge hot to Pole 1 and neck hot to Pole 2

run a wire that connects these four outer lugs, 1A to 1B to 2B to 2C and then to the volume control for output

thats it!

John

Edited June 6, 2009 by JohnH