Author Topic: wiring problem (Read 3674 times)

CaffeineJunkie · « **on:** May 13, 2007, 07:32:08 PM »

just wired up my MQ last night, and when i tried it out today, my tone pot seems to be cutting all the sound out when it isn't on max.

when i changed the pup, all i did was remove the two live wires from the coil split humbucker and replace one of them with the live from my MQ, then grounded it to the back of the tone pot

any suggestions ??

Cheers

James

PhilKing · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2007, 01:12:54 PM »

Do you have a ground from the tone pot to the volume pot? How come you didn't ground to the back of the volume pot? You say 2 live wires from the HB? The live from the MQ should go to the left tag when you look at the vol (the right should be ground and the centre to the switch/jack).

CaffeineJunkie · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2007, 06:47:46 PM »

the ground was already on the tone pot, i just removed the old ground from the pickup and replaced it with the new one

oh and i think i forgot to mention, but the volume pot is a push-pull pot

CaffeineJunkie · « **Reply #3 on:** May 15, 2007, 08:16:55 PM »

it's kool, i've worked out what the problem was.. everything is working just dandy now :D

clips as soon as i've stopped rocking out, and when i'm not revising

Cheers

James

Twinfan · « **Reply #4 on:** May 15, 2007, 08:31:43 PM »

What was the problem?

CaffeineJunkie · « **Reply #5 on:** May 15, 2007, 08:35:18 PM »

couple of things

a) i'd replaced the split wire from the HB with the new live instead of the normal live
b) the tone was wired into the push-pull from 2 of it's 'posts', so i changed it so that the edge post went to a cap then to ground
c) the wire from the tone output to the volume was going to the split section of the push-pull as well, so that needed swapping over

not too bad for a maths student :)