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two split coil humbucker wiring

Hi TB!

I'm having trouble deciding how to wire two split coil humbuckers, so that I will have these positions:

1) neck outer
2) neck inner
3) neck humbucker
4) bridge outer
5) bridge inner
6) neck outer + bridge outer

is there any way to wire such configuration?

I thought about putting 4 separate volume pots on each coil but that messes up the guitar design a lot and I don't get to have tone pot.....

someone recommended pushpull potentiometer... don't know how that would work or if it would give me these configurations?.... I think push pull can only turn humbucker into ONE single coil and it can not give you BOTH single coils.... wrong?

any ideas? :confused:
 
I did this with my Bartolini's very simply using one switch. It basically give you inner coils, outer coils, and humbucking. So in essence, I have this:

Neck inner
Neck outer
Neck series
Bridge inner
Bridge outer
Bridge series
Neck + Bridge inner
Neck + Bridge outer
Neck + Bridge series

What kind of pickups do you have? Here's the Bart wiring diagram, it's the second diagram on page 2.
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ctmullins
I guess I'll go for that method but I'd like to ask line6man

line6man
Which kind of rotary switch can do that?
All the rotary switch diagrams I found were really limited...

mmbongo
what kind of switch is used there on bartolini pdf page?
 
ctmullins
I guess I'll go for that method but I'd like to ask line6man

line6man
Which kind of rotary switch can do that?
All the rotary switch diagrams I found were really limited...

mmbongo
what kind of switch is used there on bartolini pdf page?

It's a 3-way mini toggle, on/off/on. This switch:
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