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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: nick-ola on March 12, 2006, 10:59:27 AM

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: nick-ola on March 12, 2006, 10:59:27 AM

Hello
I bought a nailbomb (bridge) 4 conductors alnico V and a MQ (P90 humbucker sized) neck for a guitar I'm building and I need help to wire everything.
I'm going to have 1 vol pot, 1tone pot (both 500k) and capacitors, 1 pickup switch (gibson LP style 3 ways). I don't really understand regular schematics so I prefer to work on pictures.
Here the pic of my PUs and components:
(http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/1364/dsc018081ce.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

and here is another diagram you could use to draw the wires to the components for me... :oops:  :D
(http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/9527/wiringbks20fp.png) (http://imageshack.us)

Thank you by advance

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: PhilKing on March 12, 2006, 02:30:39 PM

Hope you can follow this, the 2 wires soldered together are green and white (like you have now),  the centre core from the MQ goes to the switch and the screen to earth.

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: nick-ola on March 12, 2006, 04:53:54 PM

Thank you that's great, very usefull!
What about the two capacitors do I need them and where?

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: nick-ola on March 12, 2006, 05:09:33 PM

sorry I didn't see the capacitor on the tone pot...I guess I don't need the other one

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: PhilKing on March 13, 2006, 12:48:48 AM

Quote from: nick-ola

sorry I didn't see the capacitor on the tone pot...I guess I don't need the other one

Only one is needed, it should be .02 or .047.

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: Cattivo Ragazzo on March 13, 2006, 02:29:14 AM

dunno, on my old pots there is a green square lollypop type thing on the tone, and on the volume there is a orange lollypop.

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: monkeywalker on March 13, 2006, 04:59:15 PM

you can use the other capacitor to conect the volume and tone as far as i know, i think you would then run an earth from the back of the volume to the back of the tone.

the second cap i mentioned above would go where phillking put the connecting wire for the two pots.

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: PhilKing on March 14, 2006, 05:35:23 PM

Quote from: Cattivo Ragazzo

dunno, on my old pots there is a green square lollypop type thing on the tone, and on the volume there is a orange lollypop.

The 'orange lollypop' is a 0.001 cap, used as a treble bleed when you turn down the volume.  A lot of people (me included), think of these as tone killers.

Title: Wiring schematics help needed...
Post by: Cattivo Ragazzo on March 15, 2006, 06:24:23 AM

It does? It's very tiny, should I take it off? What about the green one?

Title: lollypop
Post by: sgmypod on March 15, 2006, 09:44:51 AM

Philking...I have a sg 2 tone 2 vol setup...has them orange lollypops on..is it worth removing them?