Push pull tone knob wiring

[Misterrul]

Well I'm new here guys! First post Anyways I've started out a project for a partscaster. I have a HSH body, back routed with a reversed headstock. I bought a push pull tone knob to use with my humbuckers for coil splitting but I just realised that the humbuckers I bought is single wired so I can't coil tap them. Can I still use the push pull tone knob normally? If so how do I wire them up. My config is HSH with 1 volume 1 push pull tone knob and 5 way selector switch. Thanks in advance!

 

[Logrinn]

You just wire it without soldering anything to the switch part of the push pull pot.
Here is a wiring diagram from Seymour Duncan. There isn't any switch in this wiring and the red and white wires they have soldered together are the ones you are missing that would have made coil splitting possible. As you can see they are not used here:

 

[stratamania]

Welcome to the forum.

You need a four wire humbucker to do a coil split. ( by the way a coil tap is a different thing to a split  but you won't be able to do that either )

The switching part of a pot is mechanically and electrically separate to the actual pot. So yes you could just wire the pot as normal and ignore the switching terminals.

 

[ecdarby]

I'm a little late to the party on this one, but there is other stuff you can still do with the push pull switch. If you're going to have it in your guitar, it might as well do something, right? Off the to of my head, you could use it to...

- switch one of your humbuckers on in any position so you have the option of using all three pickups at once or both humbuckers in parallel, a la lp middle position
-switch your hb's into series wiring for a gain boost
-switch between tone caps since you have both a single and two humbuckers in the circuit
-remove the tone or volume control out of the circuit entirely so the pickups run wide open
-phase reverse on one of the pickups
-switch in a passive distortion circuit
-master kill switch to turn your guitar off between songs

I'm sure there are a hundred other things the folks here could recommend or even a Google search might spark some ideas. Even if none of those sound useful to you now, wouldn't it feel better to not use it because you have that option, rather than not having the option? Besides, it might all of the sudden become useful just when you least expect it to.  :icon_thumright:

 

[stratamania]

The OP could also for his second post at least give a reply  :icon_scratch:

 

[Logrinn]

True.
If not a thank you, then at least a heads up if further help is needed.  :help:  ???

 

[Misterrul]

Hi thanks all for your suggestions and help! Really appreciate it Sorry I've not been on in awhile been busy with school :sad1: Well I'm new to this and I guess I'll probably start small first haha just gonna wire it up normally Just another newbie question, does it really matter what wire I use to connect the rest of the circuit or will just any insulated wire work fine? Like those that people use for light bulbs and stuff

 

[stratamania]

Good to see you back.

Wires used in domestic lighting circuits are likely to be a bit heavy. You need something closer to 24 AWG hook up wire.

 

[Misterrul]

Alrights! I managed to get my guitar wired up and it sounds great (probably biased) but there seems to be something wrong with my volume and tone pots possibly something to do with my wiring but I'm not exactly sure what. The volume pot does modulate the volume as it should but when it's turned down to zero there is still an output and quite a significant one as well. Could it be that I didn't ground the wire correctly?

What I did at the volume pot is I soldered one terminal to the back of the pot and connected the wires to that. Is that correct? My tone knob does seem to change the tone as well but when it's turned up to about 9-10 it kinda 'hops' in the sound?

 

[stratamania]

If you have soldered to the back of the pots, and have had the heat on there for too long that the pots have got damaged internally. Other than that it could be dry joints or a number of possibilities.

Difficult for anyone to say via a distance.