TLOPband
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Hello everyone. Was hoping I could get a bit of guidance for a mod I did on my PRS Mira.
It was originally a two humbucker guitar but I put in a p90 in the middle position and changed the 3 way blade switch for a 5 way. I did a mod on my PRS Swamp Ash Special that uses an additional push pull pot on the volume (the tone is for coil splitting) to turn the bridge pickup on so I can have the neck and bridge together in position 1 (and all three pickups in position 2). For the Mira, I decided to put in a latching push button to do the same thing that also has an LED ring that lights up when the button is pushed in. Here's the link to the one I installed from Amazon:
Latching Push Button Switch, 16mm 12V Momentary Push Button LED Latching ON/Off Power Push Button Switch, 1 Pack Power Symbol+Ring LED Stainless Steel Waterproof (White) https://a.co/d/bBA5zVD
The issue I now have is that to power the LED I can use batteries, but the LED seems to constantly draw power from the button batteries I was using (2 × 2032s stacked in black electrical tape bundle with the positive and negative wires) so that even if I didn't have the LED on, the batteries go dead. I switched the button batteries for a square 9-volt (attached a 9-volt end onto the positive and negative wires) which worked fine but the battery got really hot. Then I tried two AAs with a battery box wired up and they got hot as well.
So I'm not sure what to do about the LED light. Perhaps I have it wired wrong, but it works well without the light. If I can't run it off of batteries then I should just go with a dpdt or something. Does anyone know if there are switches made for guitars that would run off of batteries that would do the job? I know I could certainly use a plain switch and hook up an LED wired to button batteries that I could make a hole in the pickguard for to show it's on, but if anyone knew of a switch designed for this that I could buy online then I would go with that.
Thanks for reading. And thanks in advance for any help
It was originally a two humbucker guitar but I put in a p90 in the middle position and changed the 3 way blade switch for a 5 way. I did a mod on my PRS Swamp Ash Special that uses an additional push pull pot on the volume (the tone is for coil splitting) to turn the bridge pickup on so I can have the neck and bridge together in position 1 (and all three pickups in position 2). For the Mira, I decided to put in a latching push button to do the same thing that also has an LED ring that lights up when the button is pushed in. Here's the link to the one I installed from Amazon:
Latching Push Button Switch, 16mm 12V Momentary Push Button LED Latching ON/Off Power Push Button Switch, 1 Pack Power Symbol+Ring LED Stainless Steel Waterproof (White) https://a.co/d/bBA5zVD
The issue I now have is that to power the LED I can use batteries, but the LED seems to constantly draw power from the button batteries I was using (2 × 2032s stacked in black electrical tape bundle with the positive and negative wires) so that even if I didn't have the LED on, the batteries go dead. I switched the button batteries for a square 9-volt (attached a 9-volt end onto the positive and negative wires) which worked fine but the battery got really hot. Then I tried two AAs with a battery box wired up and they got hot as well.
So I'm not sure what to do about the LED light. Perhaps I have it wired wrong, but it works well without the light. If I can't run it off of batteries then I should just go with a dpdt or something. Does anyone know if there are switches made for guitars that would run off of batteries that would do the job? I know I could certainly use a plain switch and hook up an LED wired to button batteries that I could make a hole in the pickguard for to show it's on, but if anyone knew of a switch designed for this that I could buy online then I would go with that.
Thanks for reading. And thanks in advance for any help
