I'm having an odd issue with a semi-hollow body setup, and was wondering if anyone could offer any advice.
After wiring the harness and fishing the components through the 'F' hole (that was a whole bunch of fun!) all I got was a loud 'NNNEEHHHH!" sound. Crap.
So I've taken to (after pulling the components) wiring the harness externally and am STILL running into some issues. Wondering if I may have fried a pot or the switch... Here goes
Setup: 2ea Wilkinson humbuckers 2ea A-500K Volume Pots 2ea B-500K Tone Pots 1ea 3-way toggle switch 1ea Output jack
After fussing with a variety of wiring plans (No joy, man. Fail.), I decided to test the components to see if I could find a point-of-failure. All tries include proper grounding- excuse me if I omit that in any of the following.
1) Pickup: ground to ground, hot to output--- works
2) Pickup- Hot to Switch (Neck or Bridge position, tested separately), Switch common to output---works
3) Pickup- Hot to Vol Pot lug (grounded), other lug to output jack---works
I've done these tests on each pickup individually. Once or twice, some variation of the above with both pickups.
I've tested the switch for continuity- all good.
Put an ohmmeter on the pots- gets expected reading.
I'm about to order new pots, switch and jack just to be sure. But since all components test OK, but just don't work together, I'm a bit stumped.
Any ideas?
Also- I've considered just going with a 2- Volume setup (no tone)- but can NOT find any diagrams for such. Seems that it would be simple, but since I can't get my setup to work with a traditional wiring scheme I don't want to fuss too much with that idea.
Humbucker Wiring Problem- Makin me humbuckin mad!
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I'm having an odd issue with a semi-hollow body setup, and was wondering if anyone could offer any advice.
After wiring the harness and fishing the components through the 'F' hole (that was a whole bunch of fun!) all I got was a loud 'NNNEEHHHH!" sound. Crap.
So I've taken to (after pulling the components) wiring the harness externally and am STILL running into some issues. Wondering if I may have fried a pot or the switch... Here goes
Setup:
2ea Wilkinson humbuckers
2ea A-500K Volume Pots
2ea B-500K Tone Pots
1ea 3-way toggle switch
1ea Output jack
After fussing with a variety of wiring plans (No joy, man. Fail.), I decided to test the components to see if I could find a point-of-failure. All tries include proper grounding- excuse me if I omit that in any of the following.
1) Pickup: ground to ground, hot to output--- works
2) Pickup- Hot to Switch (Neck or Bridge position, tested separately), Switch common to output---works
3) Pickup- Hot to Vol Pot lug (grounded), other lug to output jack---works
4) Either\Or-
-Pickup - Switch - Volume - Output
-Pickup - Volume - Switch - Output
-do NOT work. NO signal out.
I've done these tests on each pickup individually. Once or twice, some variation of the above with both pickups.
I've tested the switch for continuity- all good.
Put an ohmmeter on the pots- gets expected reading.
I'm about to order new pots, switch and jack just to be sure. But since all components test OK, but just don't work together, I'm a bit stumped.
Any ideas?
Also- I've considered just going with a 2- Volume setup (no tone)- but can NOT find any diagrams for such. Seems that it would be simple, but since I can't get my setup to work with a traditional wiring scheme I don't want to fuss too much with that idea.
Thanks all!