EvanWCF
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stratamania said:Both of them are not how you would normally go about wiring these schemes. I have not reverse engineered them fully but they don't look correct to me.
For example the HSH Strat diagram has the hot wires instead of going to the selector switch directly going to the push pull. The series link to the push pull when activated will split the pickup by shunting to hot, but normally splits are shunted to ground so would give you a different coil than usual.
EvanWCF said:stratamania said:Both of them are not how you would normally go about wiring these schemes. I have not reverse engineered them fully but they don't look correct to me.
For example the HSH Strat diagram has the hot wires instead of going to the selector switch directly going to the push pull. The series link to the push pull when activated will split the pickup by shunting to hot, but normally splits are shunted to ground so would give you a different coil than usual.
“Shunted to hot” and “shunted to ground” have any different and effect?
I just want to cut off the circuit to split a humbucker, when I design this diagram.
kdas3 said:I checked your first HSH diagram. It looks good. But a few tidbits:
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[*]I think you are doing 50s wiring here, because the common from the top pole of your selector switch is going to the output of your volume. Do you want that?
[*]Your split is splitting to the outer coil (i.e., the north CCW of the humbuckers). So you won't get humcancelling in pos 2 and 4. But if you replace your mid single coil with a South CW, you will.
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I haven't checked your mooncaster wiring.
stratamania said:The Mooncaster diagram is not clear at all what it is trying to do. It doesn't look to me like it will work at all.
https://www.dimarzio.com/support/wiring-diagrams
kdas3 said:stratamania said:The Mooncaster diagram is not clear at all what it is trying to do. It doesn't look to me like it will work at all.
https://www.dimarzio.com/support/wiring-diagrams
The Mooncaster does the following:
3 way switch to change between humbuckers: neck, neck and bridge together in parallel, bridge. The individual humbuckers will be wired in parallel or split if the push/pull is up or down respectively. So, the humbuckers are never wired in series.
The middle pickup is blended into the signal via the mid vol pot, and it also has its own dedicated mid tone. The humbuckers (both simultaneously) have their own dedicated volume and tone. Lastly there's a master volume too.
I digested it the following order:
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[*]The middle hot goes to mid vol input. The mid vol output goes to master vol input. The mid tone is wired in the usual way.
[*]The hots of the neck and bridge humbuckers go to the commons on the push/pull, which goes to the selector switch. So, electrically the hots could go to the selector switch first and then go to the commons on the push/pull, it does not matter. In the down position, both humbuckers are split, since the green and black wire of the humbuckers are grounded (this also means no series link exists). Again, I am not sure which coil will be selected. In the up position, the hot of the other coil for each humbucker is fed into the signal, so this means the humbucker is in parallel.
[*]The selector switch looks a bit strange and I had to assume how it works. I believe that the bottom middle lug is the ground for the switch. The two terminals on the top are the common, really it should be one terminal (it's the two angled terminals on a switchcraft switch which angle in towards each other and touch). Then the selector switch in position 1 chooses the bottom left terminal, in position 2 chooses both the bottom left and right terminal, and position 3 chooses the bottom right terminal. The common goes to the humbucker volume input, which then has its own tone wired in the standard way. The humbucker volume output goes to the master volume input.
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Is there something you have found which leads you to believe it won't work?
EvanWCF said:Yea, thanks.
Strat:
1. Bridge
2. Bridge + Mid
3. Middle
4. Neck + Mid
5. Neck
PP down=split coil, PP up=series
Mooncaster:
LP swtich control humbucker
Master volume, humbucker volume and tone
Independent single coil volume and tone
PP down=split coil, PP up=parallel
kdas3 said:They have explained (albeit briefly) what is intended. 'PP down = split coil and PP up = parallel'. So series was not intended.
kdas3 said:I guess what isn't clear in their description is that the single coil is blended in, and that the 3 way switch only switches the humbuckers (like a usual Les Paul).