Astro2k Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 Hi I have a wiring Problem I have two humbuckers I put on/off switch for each pickup. but I'm using one Volume pot I can only get one pickup to work at a time. if I wire both up to volume pot the bridge pickup dont work if i unhook the neck pickup the bridge pickup works. basically it works if I only have one pickup wired to pot. can you hookup two pickup outputs to the same lug on vol pot? anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 If you could draw a diagram of your setup we might be better able to help. Basically, with your setup, you need to wire the pickups in parallel and then have two kill switches. There's a simpler way to do this--use one switch, a Gibson-style toggle. It gives you neck, bridge, or both in parellel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billm90 Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 I have no idea what you are doing.... but it almost sounds like you have one pickup wired backwards. meaning.... one is sending a ground signal to the positive.... so when both are running, one is being grounded, thus dead? I have had too much beer to really get into this right now... it hurts my head... lol A diagram would work wonders... but I will just ask... do you have your pickups going to teh switch, and then to the volume pot? or pickup, to volume pot, to switch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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