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Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: Davey on March 24, 2007, 01:59:26 PM

Title: switch issues
Post by: Davey on March 24, 2007, 01:59:26 PM

why am i hearing the bridge pickup (albeit weak) through the neck position on the switch, when i havent got any neck pickup wired in?

Title: switch issues
Post by: dave_mc on March 24, 2007, 04:54:54 PM

quantum tunnelling?

sorry.

Have you got a pic? (bear in mind I suck at any electronics stuff, lol)

Title: switch issues
Post by: Davey on March 24, 2007, 05:03:47 PM

well.. everything is wired up properly. i quadruple checked it. maybe i just got a loop through the housing or whatever.. i grounded that pin and not it doesnt make any noise.. but i got a nifty kill switch hehe.


and for the record .. gibson style switches SUCK ASS!!!!!!!!!!! i was much happier with the japanese ibanez switch i had in my epi. much more hassle free. these things arent worth the money they ask for them.

Title: switch issues
Post by: dave_mc on March 24, 2007, 05:49:22 PM

aye, i have no idea, lol. You probably know more about pickup wiring that I do... unless as you say you have some kind of loop?

Title: switch issues
Post by: PhilKing on March 24, 2007, 06:00:05 PM

The switch is upside down? :orcass:

Title: switch issues
Post by: dave_mc on March 24, 2007, 10:16:30 PM

^ haha!

I'm guessing you are getting the full tone of the bridge pickup with the switch in the bridge position, davey?

 :lol:

Title: switch issues
Post by: PhilKing on March 24, 2007, 10:57:41 PM

Giving a sensible answer now, are the wafers just touching? Many times you need to check the switch to make sure that it breaks the connection in the 'off' side.  I have had to bend the wafers a bit to make it work sometimes.

Title: switch issues
Post by: HTH AMPS on March 25, 2007, 12:32:27 PM

sounds like a volume pot that isn't totally at zero ohms when it's on zero - my mate's LP used to do this before I put some CTS pots in it.

 :twisted:

Title: switch issues
Post by: Davey on March 26, 2007, 06:22:29 PM

it's purely a switch issue.
 
they might have some faint connection between them, since i get sound from both positions.. probably the soldering paste i got, cos it's slightly conductive, i got to clean the switch. i got it wired as a kill switch now, so there definatelly isnt any sound from the middle and neck positions anymore.

Title: switch issues
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on March 26, 2007, 07:23:15 PM

Stop buying cheap switches. PDT_008