Hello,
New to the forum and need help. I have a PRS SE Frederick Akesson guitar that I'm converting to a standard Singlecut. I.E. Just 2 volumes, 2 tones one 3 way toggle. No coil taps I received the guitar with no pickups and just the Alpha pots that were connected in pairs.
I picked up a set of the Korean made G&B PRS SE 7 pickups to drop into this guitar. Basically I'm wiring it from the ground up so here's the issues. There are ZERO wiring schematics on the web for this and ZERO color code charts for the G&B pickups. As it sits right now, my head is spinning in confusion and I'm frustrated beyond belief. The PRS Singlecut PDF diagram shows the American setup and the capacitor is on a different lug so I can't use that diagram. The color code charts show 5 wires with one being a bare wire, G&B only has 4 wires and NO bare. Lastly the toggle switch has it's own set of wires which run into the control cavity but that appears to be factory wired.
So to help you guys understand what I'm looking at:
From the toggle switch I have 1 red and 1 green wire both of which contain 1 white and 1 bare wire. I'll assume the white is a hot and the bare goes to a ground somewhere?
The tone pots have the capacitors soldered to an outside lug and the ground wires from the back of the tone pots to the center lugs of the tone pots with the last outside lugs both being open.
The volume pots appear to have both outside lugs grounded to the pot backs and the center lugs open.
The pickups each have 4 wires: Black, Red, White and Green. I believe I need to tape off the Red and White wires then solder green to ground and black to the Hot lug (but don't know which lug is hot. Then I don't know where to solder the toggle switch wires to?
I can solder these myself, not sure how to use a multimeter for this stuff and I don't really want to pay a tech to do this because it'll cost me over $100 or more and I'm looking to sell this guitar.
Help please!!!?
New to the forum and need help. I have a PRS SE Frederick Akesson guitar that I'm converting to a standard Singlecut. I.E. Just 2 volumes, 2 tones one 3 way toggle. No coil taps I received the guitar with no pickups and just the Alpha pots that were connected in pairs.
I picked up a set of the Korean made G&B PRS SE 7 pickups to drop into this guitar. Basically I'm wiring it from the ground up so here's the issues. There are ZERO wiring schematics on the web for this and ZERO color code charts for the G&B pickups. As it sits right now, my head is spinning in confusion and I'm frustrated beyond belief. The PRS Singlecut PDF diagram shows the American setup and the capacitor is on a different lug so I can't use that diagram. The color code charts show 5 wires with one being a bare wire, G&B only has 4 wires and NO bare. Lastly the toggle switch has it's own set of wires which run into the control cavity but that appears to be factory wired.
So to help you guys understand what I'm looking at:
From the toggle switch I have 1 red and 1 green wire both of which contain 1 white and 1 bare wire. I'll assume the white is a hot and the bare goes to a ground somewhere?
The tone pots have the capacitors soldered to an outside lug and the ground wires from the back of the tone pots to the center lugs of the tone pots with the last outside lugs both being open.
The volume pots appear to have both outside lugs grounded to the pot backs and the center lugs open.
The pickups each have 4 wires: Black, Red, White and Green. I believe I need to tape off the Red and White wires then solder green to ground and black to the Hot lug (but don't know which lug is hot. Then I don't know where to solder the toggle switch wires to?
I can solder these myself, not sure how to use a multimeter for this stuff and I don't really want to pay a tech to do this because it'll cost me over $100 or more and I'm looking to sell this guitar.
Help please!!!?