57/08 wiring issue, please help!

[Raven2047]

hello everyone. i have a set of 57/08 set and it has single conductor with a white wire. i brought a custom 22/24 wiring harness from PRS. i have a s2 guitar. the wiring diagram on PRS' website only shows pickups with 3 or more wires. does anyone have a diagram for single conductors? i tried to contact customer service at PRS and they told me that single conductors are not compatible with 5 way blades, while the 57/08 page on the site says it does. please help!

thank you everyone in advance!

 

[garrett]

I drew this up a while back. You'll want to put some heat shrink along most of the length of the braided wires to avoid accidental shorts. It takes a little reconfiguring of the switch, but you can get the same positions as a Custom. However, position 4 will not be hum cancelling. Connecting the taps to hot will most closely match the usual PRS Custom wiring.

 

[Grapeshot]

hello everyone. i have a set of 57/08 set and it has single conductor with a white wire. i brought a custom 22/24 wiring harness from PRS. i have a s2 guitar. the wiring diagram on PRS' website only shows pickups with 3 or more wires. does anyone have a diagram for single conductors? i tried to contact customer service at PRS and they told me that single conductors are not compatible with 5 way blades, while the 57/08 page on the site says it does. please help!

thank you everyone in advance!

The current 57/08s you can purchase from PRS are 4-conductor, which is what PRS is showing on their site as compatible with the 5-way blades (not the older ones that are single conductor with the white-wire for splitting).

That's a pretty cool diagram that Garrett posted!

 

[garrett]

The current 57/08s you can purchase from PRS are 4-conductor, which is what PRS is showing on their site as compatible with the 5-way blades (not the older ones that are single conductor with the white-wire for splitting).

That's a pretty cool diagram that Garrett posted!

The ones with white, black, red, bare wires are actually 2 conductor with a tap.


I made the diagram pretty now. You can do a bunch of variations, but this one gives the stock selections.

 

[Raven2047]

thank you guys so much. do i have to do anything to the tone and vol pot from the harness or can i just keep it like that? im not sure how to line the hot like the way its drawn... do i strip it and solder it to each opening?

 

[garrett]

thank you guys so much. do i have to do anything to the tone and vol pot from the harness or can i just keep it like that? im not sure how to line the hot like the way its drawn... do i strip it and solder it to each opening?

I connect the pickup lead to one lug and use scraps to make jumpers to the other lugs. The cut-off legs from caps and resistors are perfect for this. You can lay then straight across and solder them. If you don't have anything laying around, you can probably strip the jumper wires that came on the kit and repurpose them.

And no, you don't need to change the other components. It only affects the switch. You'll need to find a place to ground the bare wires, though. For example, directly to the back of a pot, or connect a jumper wire to the bare wires and then to a pot casing or the switch casing. Whatever is most convenient.

 

[Raven2047]

https://ibb.co/7Vz70qZ
https://ibb.co/t42RfPH
this is the switch now, should i remove everything and follow the diagram or am i better off starting with a clean switch?

 

[garrett]

https://ibb.co/7Vz70qZ
https://ibb.co/t42RfPH
this is the switch now, should i remove everything and follow the diagram or am i better off starting with a clean switch?

Here's what I'd do. It will be very efficient, actually...


Leave everything alone here, except:
Remove that middle black wire from the switch, strip some more insulation off, and solder it to the braided pickup wires for your ground connection.

On this side, take the two red wires off and reuse them.
One will connect the two commons together at the left end of the switch.
The other will connect the lugs for positions 2 & 4 on the bottom right set of lugs.

Remove the jumper that connects all four lugs of the bottom row and then solder it to the lugs in the top row.

 

[Raven2047]

before
https://ibb.co/zx8GQmk
after
https://ibb.co/PtshL4w

thank you so much for helping!

sorry, i referred back to your earlier post and found the answer for the white wires.

i drew two layouts, the before and after.
in the before drawing, everything was copied from the harness except that i added the jack along with a hot and ground wire (i added myself and am not sure if theyre in the correct location)

in the after drawing, i did my best following the instructions written and im hopeful its correct and that i can start soldering. please let me know it is good to go.

thanks again!

 

[garrett]

before
https://ibb.co/zx8GQmk
after
https://ibb.co/PtshL4w

thank you so much for helping!

sorry, i referred back to your earlier post and found the answer for the white wires.

i drew two layouts, the before and after.
in the before drawing, everything was copied from the harness except that i added the jack along with a hot and ground wire (i added myself and am not sure if theyre in the correct location)

in the after drawing, i did my best following the instructions written and im hopeful its correct and that i can start soldering. please let me know it is good to go.

thanks again!

Looks good to me.