musmanjam Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 I'm looking for something I don't even know exists: a triple pole, double throw push pull pot. The pot could be 250k or 500k. I'd like to control 2 functions with a single switch and that's the only way i see possible. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? If so, where can I get one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethmetal Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Never seen one, but I could use the same thing, except a 4 pole. I figure if they're gonna add another pole, why not 2 I'm always looking for things that aren't made. If I come across such a pot I wil post it on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_urr_A Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 I think a simply circuit with a few transistors and a small battery could do the trick. If you'd make the switch control whether or not the circuit with the battery and transistors was closed or broken, you could set the transistors to control the other functions. I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester700 Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Actually, wouldn't it rock to have a small switching board that allowed you to hook up up to 6 coils and then connect them any way you wanted? Maybe even program the most used ones into user banks... I DID see an electronic switch some time ago, but it was very limited it what it allowed you to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank falbo Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 The only time I've needed multiple functions I just got 3PDT and 4PDT mini-toggles from Bartolini. I don't know where he gets them but they can't be that hard to find. Sometimes you just can't go "stealth," you have to make a switch look like a switch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank falbo Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Actually, wouldn't it rock to have a small switching board that allowed you to hook up up to 6 coils and then connect them any way you wanted? Maybe even program the most used ones into user banks... I DID see an electronic switch some time ago, but it was very limited it what it allowed you to do. I have an Ibanez proline with the push buttons, and another push button assembly that I saw someone at a shop throwing away! I saved it and it's going on a guitar I'm making. It doesn't let you choose coil combinations, but you can preset a pickup combination. With 3 pickup buttons you can do any combination and also preset tapping the bridge pickup. So you could go from, say, bridge hum w/middle single to bridge single w/neck single. Or from bridge hum to all three pickups as singles. A little off topic, but I also wanted to ask, what are you trying to do? Maybe there's a way to do it without 3 poles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester700 Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Actually, wouldn't it rock to have a small switching board that allowed you to hook up up to 6 coils and then connect them any way you wanted? Maybe even program the most used ones into user banks... I DID see an electronic switch some time ago, but it was very limited it what it allowed you to do. I have an Ibanez proline with the push buttons, and another push button assembly that I saw someone at a shop throwing away! I saved it and it's going on a guitar I'm making. It doesn't let you choose coil combinations, but you can preset a pickup combination. With 3 pickup buttons you can do any combination and also preset tapping the bridge pickup. So you could go from, say, bridge hum w/middle single to bridge single w/neck single. Or from bridge hum to all three pickups as singles. A little off topic, but I also wanted to ask, what are you trying to do? Maybe there's a way to do it without 3 poles. Is that a 1770? Those are nice. I look for them occasionally; the bound ebony sorta-ultra neck gets me going... Is the 3 pole question for me or musmanjam? I've settled on a double-barrel switching setup combining a standard 5-way, a 4-pole 5-way rotary, and a push-pull dual coil splitter. That'll probably happen this weekend... http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/doublebar...arrel/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank falbo Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Yes it's a 1770, and I have 2 other proline necks on different guitars. They're wonderful, although they require the most adjusting of any of my guitars. Probably the ebony. It never wants to cooperate with maple. They're always fighting about which way to go. The question was for musmanjam sorry for the incoherence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 (edited) Actually, wouldn't it rock to have a small switching board that allowed you to hook up up to 6 coils and then connect them any way you wanted? Maybe even program the most used ones into user banks... I DID see an electronic switch some time ago, but it was very limited it what it allowed you to do. i actually used to have a strat clone.. it was a cheap little thing. but i managed to take out all the switches and leave only the volume knob in there. and sent all the pickup wires out thru two shielded cables. after installing small low powered relays into the guitar to switch the pickups for me.. i built my dream pedal board. three distoritons. and all my basic pedals and fx loops and some basic sounds.. my super sparkle clean strat.. bridge single and middle single. put a high pass filter on it and a load slight clean preamp. with all my reverbs and stuff hendrix tone. super fuzzed out neck single and middle pos. coustic all three coils on at the same time. notch filter. load resistor and a small preamp vai/dreamtheater tone (this was tow presets one with short delay medium reverb and other with long delay harmonizing type thing ) full blown humbucking heavy distoriton.. anyway i had like twelve tones on there that switched not only my pickups but my eq my notch filters distortion levels and all the other funn stuff. end result. i loved it ,, took 2 months to get it up and running from the day i started on it. reason i sold it.. i got married and me and the little woman needed cash. so i sold it and the pedal board with all the pedals and stuff on it. for 1400 bucks. i might have the schematic laying around if anyone wants to attempt this monster. on a nother note too. i should mention that by the time i did all the mods. i had like 200 bucks in the thing.. counting all the switches and relays and stuff.. but the last time i checked into doing this again i found better deals on the interenet. this build was before i got heavy into the internet and finding online dealers.. Edited March 7, 2004 by ansil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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