Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: mrjackwasley on March 01, 2017, 09:07:35 PM
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Hi all,
I've recently fitted a set of juggernaughts to my Epi Les Paul and I'm now wanting to purchase new pots, caps , three way toggle switch and possibly an input jack. Could anyone help with the following questions?
500k CTS pots or 3/4" CTS pots? also would these the same pot for volume and tone? or are the BKP 550k pots a better shout?
Jensen Caps, do I want 0.015UFD or 0.022UFD? whats the difference?
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500K is the rating, 3/4" would be the length of the shaft.
Look at what you have in there currently. Les Pauls usually have the long shaft. The diameter of the shaft will be a bit bigger than the ones on your Epi though (they are metric), so you would need to enlarge the holes with a tapered reamer.
CTS and Bourns 500K pots are both good. The 550K pots that BKP sells are basically high-spec 500K pots. There is a tolerance on pots, sometimes 10%, sometimes 20%. This means that if you buy a random CTS pot it might be anywhere between 400K and 600K in theory.
O.015uf is brighter than 0.022uf. People sometimes use 0.015uf in the neck position. I would avoid it for the bridge