Reflex wiring question

[Vincet68]

Hey all - couldn't find a wiring schematic for my Reflex online - if they're somewhere, let me know.

To my eye, it looks like the pickups come into the series/parallel switch, then route to the 5-way, which goes to the Volume in. Question is what is the white wire coming from Series/Parallel switch to tone pot (and then on to volume in)? Is it redundant?

Many thanks,

Vince

 

[Vincet68]

Sorry for replying to my own thread, but I posted from iPad and its easier to type now I'm on laptop.

If I follow the wiring looking in the guitar, and presume the white wire from the Series/Parallel (S/P) switch is a summed output of the individual pickup wires on the S/P, then the tone is acting on that output to bleed to ground, before passing the treated sound on to the Volume pot, where it is summed with the output of the 5-way switch, then passed to the jack socket. So that would mean signal is split by the S/P into two parallel paths and tone operates on only one of the paths - is that right?

 

[beej]

It's the other way round- the pickups go to the 5-way lever for coil selection, then to the toggle for series/parallel.

There's both a wire from the lever and one from the toggle to the volume/tone pot to make the switching scheme work. The volume & tone work normally.

 

[Vincet68]

Thanks, beej - not sure it makes complete sense to me, but I suspect I'd need to know the ins and outs of the S/P switch - which is more than I want to know!

My original question came from wanting to do 50s wiring on the guitar (i.e. placing treble bleed after the volume - a mod I have on all my guitars by preference). The link from the volume-tone-S/P meant that the treble was bleeding off before volume and so my question was to see if I was missing anything with that extra S/P connection. Either way, I made the connection from the volume pot to S/P direct (i.e. bypassed the tone pot) and completed the 50s mod as per any standard circuit. Everything's working just hunky dory - and my already amazing Reflex just became a little more suited to me (which I didn't think would be possible!)

Thanks!

Vince

 

[beej]

Ah, gotcha. Glad it worked out

 

[edhalen]

Vince - pics of said Reflex???

 

[Vincet68]

I'm playing it in my profile pic! (Or, for the persnickety, my profile pic was taken when I was playing it ) if folk really want to see it, I can post some more pics in the thread further up the boards.


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