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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: StefanPrice on December 11, 2006, 10:48:22 AM

Title: Tele wiring need help.
Post by: StefanPrice on December 11, 2006, 10:48:22 AM

Hi, I wonder if anyone could possibly shed some light on this.

I have just got hold of some Tapped tele pickups, I wish to wire them  with a 3 way tele switch and a single push pull.
The picks should work with the full coils in the down postion and tap for a thinner sound when the knob is pulled.
BOTH Tele pickups have 3 wires,  1 earth and 2 outputs - full and tap.
I have spent about 6 hours or more looking on the wiring websites and not one of them shows any thing with these pickups at all - I don't know why?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Stef.

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Title: Tele wiring need help.
Post by: Philly Q on December 11, 2006, 11:52:34 AM

This is for 2 coil-split humbuckers in a Tele, but I think the principle would be the same - just wire the "tap" wires to the push-pull where the 2 pairs of wires are connected in the diagram:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/tele_2hum_2pushpull.html

Title: Tele wiring need help.
Post by: PhilKing on December 11, 2006, 12:05:44 PM

The diagram will not work for coil tap. This diagram shorts the unused coil out.

What you need is to take one hot wire to each of the outside connections of the push/pull and take a wire from the center to the 3 way for each pickup.

Like this:

Bridge pu         Switch                neck pu
hot                L1      R1              hot
       to 3 way L2      R2 to 3 way
tap                L3      R3              tap


Put the hot wire nearest the pot, with the tap furthest away, this should give full output with the put down.