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Hello,
I've put some new Pickups in my Guitar and Guitar and I'm not sure if I done it right. Though it sounds quite good, I'm confused.
I want to have 2 Pickups, One Volume and a mini-switch for coil splitting. The Dragon 2 Pickups have 3 conducters plus the shield.
Here is what I've done:
1. Replaced the Pickups for sure.
2. Put out the Tone Knob with the big capicitator.
3. Put in the Mini-Switch (On/On with 2 pins=6 pins)
4. Soldered the Bridge Ground to the Volume Knob.
5. Soldered the Shields to the Volume Knob as well.
6. Soldered the Hot (I have noticed that the color-codes of the Bass & Treble Pickups are different) to the Blade Switch.
7. Soldered the Ground of the Pickups (not the shield) to the middle pins of the Mini-Switch. Grounded that with the Volume Knob.
8. Soldered the the Coil Tap (Red) one End of the Mini-Switch.
What makes me so confuse is that put the same Pickups with the same configuration in another guitar of mine and I'm pretty sure, that I didn't use the ground-conducter(not the shield) that time. However: this didn't work this time. I had very little output until I tried to connect the grounds to the shield.
What are the grounds for anyway? Some out of phase/rotary switch stuff?
Thanks!
Nils
I've put some new Pickups in my Guitar and Guitar and I'm not sure if I done it right. Though it sounds quite good, I'm confused.
I want to have 2 Pickups, One Volume and a mini-switch for coil splitting. The Dragon 2 Pickups have 3 conducters plus the shield.
Here is what I've done:
1. Replaced the Pickups for sure.
2. Put out the Tone Knob with the big capicitator.
3. Put in the Mini-Switch (On/On with 2 pins=6 pins)
4. Soldered the Bridge Ground to the Volume Knob.
5. Soldered the Shields to the Volume Knob as well.
6. Soldered the Hot (I have noticed that the color-codes of the Bass & Treble Pickups are different) to the Blade Switch.
7. Soldered the Ground of the Pickups (not the shield) to the middle pins of the Mini-Switch. Grounded that with the Volume Knob.
8. Soldered the the Coil Tap (Red) one End of the Mini-Switch.
What makes me so confuse is that put the same Pickups with the same configuration in another guitar of mine and I'm pretty sure, that I didn't use the ground-conducter(not the shield) that time. However: this didn't work this time. I had very little output until I tried to connect the grounds to the shield.
What are the grounds for anyway? Some out of phase/rotary switch stuff?
Thanks!
Nils