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I've got an RG550 that I've had for 20 some years that has EMG 81s in the neck and bridge.  I'm looking to change back to passive, so I bought a JB bridge, Cool Rails neck for the middle and a Jazz neck pickup, along with a couple push/pull 500k pots and a Superswitch.

I've been trying to find a wiring diagram for a specific setup but haven't had much luck.  What I want to do is wire it up this way:

Position 1 - Neck pickup in series
Position 2 - Neck pickup in parallel
Position 3 - Bridge/Neck in series
Position 4 - Bridge pickup in parallel
Position 5 - Bridge pickup in series

Vol Push/pull  -- add middle pickup in series
Tone push/pull -- coil split any active pickups

Is this possible and would it make sense?  How would I wire it?  Thanks in advance, I've been scouring the internet for a month or so and haven't found exactly how to do this configuration.  Any call outs on active -> passive would be great too, thanks!
 
for position 3 when you say Bridge and neck in series, I assume each pickup is in series itself but normally bridge and neck would be parallel with each other. Or do you also want both pickups in series with themselves but also with each other?
 
Good catch, bad use of terminology on my part!  You are correct, let me restate cleaned up a bit:

Position 1 - Neck humbucker in series with itself
Position 2 - Neck in parallel with itself
Position 3 - Neck + Bridge, each in series with themselves wired parallel with each other
Position 4 - Bridge in parallel with itself
Position 5 - Bridge in series with itself
 
This would be straightforward on the superswitch.

Position 1 - Neck humbucker in series with itself
Position 2 - Neck in parallel with itself
Position 3 - Neck + Bridge, each in series with themselves wired parallel with each other
Position 4 - Bridge in parallel with itself
Position 5 - Bridge in series with itself

For the push/pulls this would be easy.

Vol Push/pull  -- add middle pickup

For the tone push pull some suggestions that would work.

Tone push/pull -- coil split  middle pickup

OR

Tone push/pull -- series/parallel  middle pickup
 
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