New 24-08 wiring

[bluemoon]

Right, the switch in one position gives you just the humbucker, and the switch in the other position gives you the humbucker followed by the resistor and capacitor.

Yes, I will work up a diagram for you and post it here.

Hi Bluemoon,

I'm trying to help the OP by creating a wiring diagram for him of that switch and its attached components, so he can add this switch functionality to his guitar.

The numbers on the capacitor are still not legible in the last photo you posted. Can you get your eyes close enough to the capacitor to read the numbers and note them down, then post it here? To help with that, you **could** temporarily unscrew and remove the nut holding this switch in place on the top side of the guitar so the wires soldered to this switch get some slack in the control cavity so you can lift the switch up closer to your eyes to make reading the numbers easier.

Also, can you confirm that the color of the 2nd and 4th bands on the resistor are Orange and not Yellow and not Gold? For a point of reference, i am treating the end of the resistor that has the Red band on it, as the starting side/left side/Bamd #1. Not the end that has the Brown band on it.

Will give it a try in the next few days.

 

[Floyd_Argus]

Will give it a try in the next few days.

Thanks but no need. Member Phobos posted photos of this wiring from his Charcoal Phoenix guitar in this other thread. I just added a reply w a description of what the cap & Resistor values in the 2 way voicing switches. Here's a link to my post there: https://forums.prsguitars.com/threads/charcoal-phoenix-first-impression.61007/page-2#post-940466

 

[vhalen50]

https://support.prsguitars.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/36332027553691

reviving the thread to say they posted the official diag. The site also has tons of new diags for all models. Biggest change im seeing is going to large orange drop caps now. Wonder if thats a cost thing or if itll be spun as "BIG CHUNKY TONE WITH A BIG ORANGE DROP CAPACITOR"

 

[direwolf08]

https://support.prsguitars.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/36332027553691

reviving the thread to say they posted the official diag. The site also has tons of new diags for all models. Biggest change im seeing is going to large orange drop caps now. Wonder if thats a cost thing or if itll be spun as "BIG CHUNKY TONE WITH A BIG ORANGE DROP CAPACITOR"

I mean, of course the latter.

 

[KentuckyBoiledChiccan]

I mean, of course the latter.

Lol

 

[Floyd_Argus]

https://support.prsguitars.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/36332027553691

reviving the thread to say they posted the official diag. The site also has tons of new diags for all models. Biggest change im seeing is going to large orange drop caps now. Wonder if thats a cost thing or if itll be spun as "BIG CHUNKY TONE WITH A BIG ORANGE DROP CAPACITOR"

The diagram for the Custom 24-08 has an error. See my explanation in the following linked images.

 

[meidinad]

The diagram for the Custom 24-08 has an error. See my explanation in the following linked images.

I appreciate you calling this out but I believe you're wrong on the switch.

On the bottom where there are three solder lugs (your green circle), the outsides are wired from the hot from each respective pickup and the middle one here is a ground point.

The top where there are two solder lugs (your blue circle says "ground wire goes here"), both of these posts are wired to the volume pot (one wire).

 

[Floyd_Argus]

I appreciate you calling this out but I believe you're wrong on the switch.

On the bottom where there are three solder lugs (your green circle), the outsides are wired from the hot from each respective pickup and the middle one here is a ground point.

The top where there are two solder lugs (your blue circle says "ground wire goes here"), both of these posts are wired to the volume pot (one wire).

Is this comment based what you see for current OEM/stock wiring in your own guitar?

 

[Domingo Lantigua]

The PRS diagram gives you a birds eye view, so you can't see was going on with the switch, so it's not really an error. There are others diagrams that show a better side view of the switch ie--McCarty

 

[vhalen50]

The PRS diagram gives you a birds eye view, so you can't see was going on with the switch, so it's not really an error. There are others diagrams that show a better side view of the switch ie--McCarty

yeah i think the diagrams they post have some assumption in knowledge of the installer. They dont always show every angle of every switch.

 

[Floyd_Argus]

vhalen50,

My apologies. After reviewing a how-to wiring video on Youtubs specific to that "L type" Gibson 3 way switch, yes, I agree my labeling of what gets attached to each lug in the 2nd photo I posted earlier, has some inaccuracies. I've personally never dealt with one of these types of switches and a little suprised to see - compared to a typical 3 way toggle switch - that the lug used for ground, is sandwiched btw the two lugs that receive the Hot wires from each pickup.

Here's a YouTube video that confirms what each lug is used for, covered at timemarks 11:00 - 11:15.

nd here's a corrected pic of what each lug is used for. I will go back and delete that inaccurate 2nd photo from my earlier post to prevent someone using it mistakenly.

** I still hold that the PRS diagram is less than ideal, inferring that both the ground wires and the switch's output wire all get attached to a "common lug" that in fact doesn't exist. How hard is it to draw the separate lugs that are actually there on the switch, Mr./Miss PRS Diagram Designer? SMH

 

[KentuckyBoiledChiccan]

The PRS diagram gives you a birds eye view, so you can't see was going on with the switch, so it's not really an error. There are others diagrams that show a better side view of the switch ie--McCarty

"Birds eye view", ISWYDH

 

[Domingo Lantigua]

"Birds eye view", ISWYDH

It was not on purpose or porpoise,

 

[KentuckyBoiledChiccan]

It was not on purpose or porpoise,

Man, take it! It was awesome