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Re: Strat 5way switch wiring ?'s

1/3/2000 4:44 PM
Doc	Re: Strat 5way switch wiring ?'s Are you sure about the claim of "no tone control in #2 & #4 position of a 5-position switch"? In the conventional switch used in strats, that is a two-pole switch, position #2 is overlapping of contacts connected to #1 & #3. Similarly, #4 position is overlapping of #3 & #5 contacts. I don't see how the tone controls, connected to the separate pickup positions, can be not connected in the parallel/ overlapping position. A way to achieve tone control & no tone control options using the stock 5-way selector switch, without any separate switch single pole switches, is by using a no-load tone pot (like a fender deltatone pot) for each of the two tone pots on a strat-type guitar. At dial position 10, they are out of the circuit, no matter where they are wired. It is possible to wire the switching of a four-pole super switch to disconnect tone controls in 2 & 4 positions. Those switches have four 5-position switch wafers with no overlapping contacts. You have to deliberately wire all features. With a standard 3-pickup strat, and single & parallel (no series) pickup connections, there are enough extra wafers to jump to & from for special tone control disconnect features.

1/3/2000 4:44 PM

Doc

Re: Strat 5way switch wiring ?'s

Are you sure about the claim of "no tone control in #2 & #4 position of a 5-position switch"? In the conventional switch used in strats, that is a two-pole switch, position #2 is overlapping of contacts connected to #1 & #3. Similarly, #4 position is overlapping of #3 & #5 contacts. I don't see how the tone controls, connected to the separate pickup positions, can be *not* connected in the parallel/ overlapping position.

A way to achieve tone control & no tone control options using the stock 5-way selector switch, without any separate switch single pole switches, is by using a no-load tone pot (like a fender deltatone pot) for each of the two tone pots on a strat-type guitar. At dial position 10, they are out of the circuit, no matter where they are wired.

It is possible to wire the switching of a four-pole super switch to disconnect tone controls in 2 & 4 positions. Those switches have four 5-position switch wafers with no overlapping contacts. You have to deliberately wire all features. With a standard 3-pickup strat, and single & parallel (no series) pickup connections, there are enough extra wafers to jump to & from for special tone control disconnect features.

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