Help! Non-typical 5-Way Wiring Help

[BReuschling]

I really need some help with this and would appreciate any you guys can provide for me.

I'm using a 5-Way Super-switch and want to get the following out of an S/S/H guitar. 1 is to the rear, 5 towards the neck. There is one volume and one tone pot.

1 - bridge humbucker alone in normal series operation

2 - bridge humbucker coil split with the INSIDE (slug) coil active by itself to get a bridge single coil sound.

3 - middle pickup and coil split bridge together, but this time with the OUTSIDE screw coil active

4 - middle pickup alone

5 - neck pickup alone

The guitar is a '98 Axis Sport and the pickups are the stock DiMarzios. The Silent Circuit is out of the loop so that does not need to be factored into the equation.

Red = North start - Hot

Black = north finish \\\. blk/wht
White = South finish /// series link

Green = South start - Ground

Thanks in advance, boys!

Brian

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[PeteDuBaldo]

Here is how I would do it to spread things out and make it easier to understand

X-[COLOR="#FF0000"]HOT                          HOT[/COLOR]-X
5-                        Neck Red-5
4-                                -4
3-            Bridge Black & White-3  (black won't do anything here, don't worry)
2-Bridge Red                      -2
1-Bridge Red                      -1 


X-[COLOR="#FF0000"]HOT[/COLOR]                       [COLOR="#00FF00"]GROUND[/COLOR]-X
5-                                -5
4-Middle Red                      -4 
3-Middle Red                      -3
2-                                -2
1-            Bridge Black & White-1

(don't forget to ground the whole switch)

Red is your hot wire
Tie black and white together on all pickups. Only connect to switch when noted above
Green and silver always go to ground





Good luck!

 

[BReuschling]

Awesome, Pete, and thanks so much!

Some of the characters shifted around so I'm not entirely sure I got it all but I think I can figure it out - or maybe I can get Tommy to go through it with me one night. One question though - the X HOT on the 4 poles is coming from where...? Sorry, bro. My experience with superswitches is very limited and they still confuse the bejesus out of me! Thanks again for all your help, Pete!

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[PeteDuBaldo]

Take the hot from the outer leg on your volume pot and run it to 3 of the "HOT" spots on the super switch. The 4th spot eeds to be wired to ground for your particular needs.

 

[BReuschling]

Gotcha, Pete, sorry I missed the ground on pole 4! Maybe I don't have to involve Alderson after all! Lol! Thanks again, Pete - very much appreciate you taking the time to help me out!!

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