Question parallel wiring

[Quido]

Just bought an older jp6 with Dimarzio Steve Specials and piezo. Fantastic guitar, should have bought it much earlier. Souds a bit sterile imo. Now I want to change the neck pu from series to parallel. I've done it before with regular dpdt switches, but this time its different. MM has a 3 way switch and dpdt switch in-one. Neatly done with letters printed on the plate for series wiring. Does anyone know how to change it to parallel?

 

[beej]

The switch is a 4PDT (it switches 4 different poles). It's wired up so in the middle position you get the inside coil from each HB in parallel.

Sky's the limit in terms of how you can wire things, but think through what you'd want the middle position to do. Do you want the neck position permanently in parallel but keep the existing configuration (one coil per HB) in the middle? Did you want to add a push/pull to switch it to series/parallel? Do you want the full neck bucker (in parallel) in parallel with the one coil from the bridge bucker? Etc.

(Boy that gamechanger will be a lot of fun.)

 

[Quido]

Thanks for the warning. I'd like to keep it simple. I have the following setup in mind:

up: neck HB in parallel
middle: full neck (parallel) with inside coil of bridge HB - out of fase
down: bridge HB in series

 

[Quido]

Question remains: How to connect the wires? I read on the site of Dimarzio how to change from series to parallel wiring (out of fase) on a DTDP switch, but does it also work the same way on a 4PDT switch?

 

[beej]

The pickups in the JP are wired a little differently than on the Dimarzio site, so you can't just follow one of those diagrams. (The coils are wired in a different order.)

If you're unsure of how to wire it, your best bet is honestly to take it to a tech who knows what they're doing.