Adding on/off switches to a pickup selection

[walterw]

a ground-shorting kill switch wouldn't work unless it was always meant to kill everything, not just one pickup.

a 3-way toggle to select pickups and a 2-way kill switch would work;

for two pickup on/off switches to work, they would need to just disconnect the pickups rather than shorting to ground.

[Derek Balonek]

My apologies, I think I used the wrong terms. I was looking at Line6man's drawing in the third post. He used an SPDT (effectively since just one pole was in use) that switches the hot lead to ground for the off side; I was curious if that functioned better than an SPST or leaving the other lug unconnected. Both cut the signal from just the one pickup. But is sending the signal to ground better than just disconnecting it from the jack?

[Wade10987]

Originally Posted by walterw

a 3-way toggle to select pickups and a 2-way kill switch would work

I thought we established that with a three way pickup selector, the volume knob could simply be rolled back?

Originally Posted by walterw

a ground-shorting kill switch wouldn't work unless it was always meant to kill everything, not just one pickup.

Is that an absolute? Are you sure? Sorry I am not doubting your expertise, just trying to get an idea of why not and whether this is a thing that has room for negotiating.

[walterw]

I just meant that if you were hell-bent on two toggles, this would be one way to do it, redundant or not.

As for the two kill-switch thing, it doesn't matter to you as a player, it's just how the wiring would need to be to work.

[Wade10987]

OK. Final question!!! I figured out how I am gonna do this. I really feel dumb, but the switch I already had will definitely work without a second switch. It is an ON/ON switch. Nobody referenced the link I posted? It was so simple I didn't realize. I kept trying to complicate things.

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electron...st=3&xsr=70419

Since I have the ON/ON, why don't I just go with that as a basic pickup selector between the Jazz and Precision PUs. Then master volume and master tone.

Since I know nothing about electronics, I kept thinking of it as a simple kill switch, but it should go two ways.

So how would I wire a P/J scheme to have a simple selector switch (this or that) with master tone and volume?

Thanks,

and PS...I might go with a 3 way switch later, to have them combined in the middle. But for now I would like to save money and use what I already had.

[line6man]

Originally Posted by Wade10987

OK. Final question!!! I figured out how I am gonna do this. I really feel dumb, but the switch I already had will definitely work without a second switch. It is an ON/ON switch. Nobody referenced the link I posted? It was so simple I didn't realize. I kept trying to complicate things.

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electron...st=3&xsr=70419

Since I have the ON/ON, why don't I just go with that as a basic pickup selector between the Jazz and Precision PUs. Then master volume and master tone.

Since I know nothing about electronics, I kept thinking of it as a simple kill switch, but it should go two ways.

So how would I wire a P/J scheme to have a simple selector switch (this or that) with master tone and volume?

Thanks,

and PS...I might go with a 3 way switch later, to have them combined in the middle. But for now I would like to save money and use what I already had.

[Wade10987]

OK. Thanks Line6man!!

But on the toggle, what is up with the C?!

I see where A and B come from, but what is C doing? What is it? Where is it going? Is it wired to both those middle terminals? It's kinda confusing.

Thanks for such a quick response too!

[line6man]

Originally Posted by Wade10987

OK. Thanks Line6man!!

But on the toggle, what is up with the C?!

I see where A and B come from, but what is C doing? What is it? Where is it going? Is it wired to both those middle terminals? It's kinda confusing.

Thanks for such a quick response too!

"C" goes to both commons. You can do this with only one pole, but that's the diagram I have for three way switching. If you want, just connect the pickups to the throws of one pole, and use the common as the output.

[Wade10987]

Ok Thanks!! I think I got it. I will be doing this in a week or two. Will check back if I am still uncertain.