North/Series/South Questions

[Heft]

Two questions,
Is this safe for guitar use https://www.ebay.ca/itm/10pcs-Mini-Toggle-Switch-SPDT-ON-OFF-ON-3-Position-6mm-12V-110V-220V-MTS-103/233301661429?hash=item3651dcd6f5:g:WZUAAOSw5N1dQpFf
Can you wire a three way telecaster switch for North/Series/South humbucker switching like you would with a dpdt switch?
Thanks

 

[Rick]

Using those switches you can get some complicated switching.  I don't know how to do what you're looking for, but I got this from 920d and it's a surifeit of options.  It's 15 ways to get 9 different sounds and I only use 6 of them.

 

[DuckBaloo]

You mean like this?

https://guitarelectronics.com/1-humbucker-1-volume-north-coil-humbucker-south-coil/

You can run the hot to the Tele switch instead of the volume pot.

If you want options on the Tele switch, use a 5-way super switch and you can have whatever coil you want on any position.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Those switches will be just fine in a guitar.

As for the wiring you are asking about, I've always had an itch to build a single humbucker guitar and wire it on a 4-way like a series Tele, treating the two coils of the humbucker like two separate pickups: Screw coil, both parallel, slug coil, both series.

 

[Heft]

It is a one humbucker guitar. I'm using a seymour duncan 59/custom pickup. Its half of a 59 and half of a custom. So using the circuit you showed I would basically have a telecaster. The plan was to use a dp/dt switch, however control plates are easier to find for 3-way switches.
Do you have a diagram for the 4-way switch? Or know where to look for one?

Those switches will be just fine in a guitar.

As for the wiring you are asking about, I've always had an itch to build a single humbucker guitar and wire it on a 4-way like a series Tele, treating the two coils of the humbucker like two separate pickups: Screw coil, both parallel, slug coil, both series.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

Sorry to take so long with this reply. The 4-Way series Tele wiring is pretty common and so wiring diagrams are are easy to come by. I'll attach the drawing I did of this wiring but others can be found with a search. The wiring would be the same to apply this to a 4-conductor humbucker, but the bridge pickup leads would be replaced with the screw coil leads (assuming it is installed with the screw coil facing the bridge), and the neck pickup leads would be replaced with the slug coil leads.

The way a humbucker is typically assembled for series operation, which is the standard humbucker configuration, is as follows:

Screw coil start: ground
Screw coil finish and Slug coil finish: connected to each other for series link
Slug coil start: hot

To get the coils in parallel, the series link is disconnected and it is hooked up as follows:

Screw coil start: ground
Screw coil finish: hot
Slug coil finish: ground
Slug coil start: hot

That is how to treat the humbucker coils as two separate pickups for the purposes of a wiring like this. I've attached a color code key from Seymour Duncan here as well. Using that as a road map, you would make the following substitutions:

Bridge pickup ground = Screw coil start = Green
Bridge pickup hot = Screw coil finish = Red
Neck pickup ground = Slug coil finish = White
Neck pickup hot = Slug coil start = Black
(Bare wire to ground as always)

 

[Heft]

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