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Ron Victoria
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Posted 25 Sep 2012 7:28 am |
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I bought a lap kit and the pots came prewired. They are the same and one has a cap which I assume is for tone. The hot jack wire goes to that pot. Would the hot wire from the single coil pickup go to that pot which has a free lug? The free lug on the other pot has been soldered closed.
thanks, Ron
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Dick Sexton
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Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 30 Sep 2012 11:56 am
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I looked at that site but it didn't have a single coil pickup diagram. Can someone help?
thanks, Ron |
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Dick Sexton
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Greenville, Ohio
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CrowBear Schmitt
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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Dick Sexton
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Greenville, Ohio
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Posted 30 Sep 2012 12:35 pm Good find Crowbear...
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Bob Metzger
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Posted 2 Oct 2012 10:26 am
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Ron,
It's hard to tell how the stuff you've got is wired without seeing a pic or a schematic.
Generally speaking, most pots have three lugs. On a volume control, one outside lug of the pot will go to ground. Many times, this lug is just soldered to the pot body. The middle lug, or the wiper, is generally the output and goes to (via a wire) the hot lug of the output jack. The remaining lug on the volume pot is the input and generally that's where the hot lead from a pickup would be soldered.
A tone control is really a side chain and tone controls can be wired in various ways. One way would be to have a wire from the volume pot input to the tone control, outside lug. Then, a capacitor would be soldered at one end to the tone control middle lug, or wiper and the other end of this cap would be soldered at a ground point. In this scheme, one lug of the tone control will be unused. But this is not the only way to wire a tone control. Sometimes, that's a quick way to tell what's a tone and what's a volume when looking at something for the first time. Many times, the tone control has only two lugs soldered up - one is not used and the volume control has all three in use.
In a guitar, lap steel, pedal steel, etc., all ground points should connect (Volume control, Tone control, output jack). Many times, this is done with a wire being soldered to the pot body of both volume and tone controls and then to the ground lug of the output jack. The ground wire from the pickup must be soldered to a ground point as well.
There is alot on the net about wiring guitars, steels, etc and the information is essentially universal. For a lap steel, the volume pot value (in ohms) and the capacitor value (in uf) could be critical, or at least worth optimizing but the wiring scheme will work the same in most any instrument.
Hope this helps,
Bob M.
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Bob Metzger
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Posted 2 Oct 2012 10:29 am
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Ron,
It's hard to tell how the stuff you've got is wired without seeing a pic or a schematic.
Generally speaking, most pots have three lugs. On a volume control, one outside lug of the pot will go to ground. Many times, this lug is just soldered to the pot body. The middle lug, or the wiper, is generally the output and goes to (via a wire) the hot lug of the output jack. The remaining lug on the volume pot is the input and generally that's where the hot lead from a pickup would be soldered.
A tone control is really a side chain and tone controls can be wired in various ways. One way would be to have a wire from the volume pot input to the tone control, outside lug. Then, a capacitor would be soldered at one end to the tone control middle lug, or wiper and the other end of this cap would be soldered at a ground point. In this scheme, one lug of the tone control will be unused. But this is not the only way to wire a tone control. Sometimes, that's a quick way to tell what's a tone and what's a volume when looking at something for the first time. Many times, the tone control has only two lugs soldered up - one is not used and the volume control has all three in use.
In a guitar, lap steel, pedal steel, etc., all ground points should connect (Volume control, Tone control, output jack). Many times, this is done with a wire being soldered to the pot body of both volume and tone controls and then to the ground lug of the output jack. The ground wire from the pickup must be soldered to a ground point as well.
There is alot on the net about wiring guitars, steels, etc and the information is essentially universal. For a lap steel, the volume pot value (in ohms) and the capacitor value (in uf) could be critical, or at least worth optimizing but the wiring scheme will work the same in most any instrument.
Hope this helps,
Bob M.
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Ron Victoria
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New Jersey, USA
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Posted 2 Oct 2012 10:52 am
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thanks everyone, got it.
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