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Fender Double-tap humbucker problem

Hello all, A customer dropped a recent American Professional II Strat to have a Double-tap humbucker installed at the bridge. I rewired the guitar following Fender's schematic (see below) and installed a stacked 250 and 500k volume pot, treble bleed PCBs and push-push coil split/tap for this pickup. All went very well, until I tried it at switch position 2. Sure enough, the new unit does not play well with the others and combining delive…

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Understood. Plus the pole spacing is slightly different also. Just tossing out troubleshooting ideas.
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Covered versus uncovered humbucker A/B testing

Hey, fellow Looths. I need a small favour… Short version: Go to https://statuesque-cocada-438199.netlify.app and listen and vote. It takes about a minute. Longer version: A friend’s son is studying music and audio production in college and is working on a project to test the covered versus uncovered humbucker question. He reached out to me for some help and I’m reaching out to you. He designed a solid experiment (even modding a guitar so…

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Hey Gerry! Just did the test. Are you gonna post the results, I mean, which was which. I'd like to know... zanks!
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Series/split/parallel wiring with a DP3T slide switch

I'm building a guitar where the client wants to use a three way slide switch (DP3T) instead of a three way toggle switch (DPDT) for having a series/split/parallel wiring configuration. We're already locked into using the slide switch instead of the toggle, and I didn't previously realize that the slide switch was DP3T so now I'm trying to figure out how to adapt the wiring. I was going to use the series/parallel/split wiring for a DPDT f…

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The reply in the Warmoth forum looks sound. Nothing else leaps to mind for a solution so I say go with this. I don't expect there will be any issue with not having the red grounded in the split positi…