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Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:36 pm
by NickD
I’m having a nightmare with the simplest of circuits - I may just have the pots reversed, but any wiring is a black art to me.
Sorry for the terrible picture, but I’ve got the guitar wired up as below and I’m getting sound, but the volume pot doesn’t go all the way off and the tone pot does nothing at all from what I can hear.
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Re: Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:03 pm
by plopswagon
Re: Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:31 pm
by sunshiner
This one is a bit closer to your initial sketch
Re: Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:51 pm
by benecol
Fuck, I should have said: those knobs I sent you, one's metric, one's imperial. That'll fuck the whole thing.
Re: Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:59 pm
by NickD
benecol wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:51 pm
Fuck, I should have said: those knobs I sent you, one's metric, one's imperial. That'll fuck the whole thing.
Thanks for the suggestions guys, Gives me some things to try.
Re: Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:18 am
by NickS
NickD wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:36 pm
I’m having a nightmare with the simplest of circuits - I may just have the pots reversed, but any wiring is a black art to me.
Sorry for the terrible picture, but I’ve got the guitar wired up as below and I’m getting sound, but the volume pot doesn’t go all the way off and the tone pot does nothing at all from what I can hear.
114E94BF-E815-43D5-95CE-7D32827E8452.jpeg
Yeah, as per the pic Sunshiner put up, the wire between the two pots needs to go to the middle tag of the tone pot, and that tag and the tag it's wired to on the volume pot need to be soldered to earth/ground e.g./i.e. the case of the pot.
Re: Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:56 am
by NickD
Thanks Nick - that was essentially the issue. I removed that wire, soldered the tags to ground and it works a treat now.
Re: Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 1:00 pm
by plopswagon
NickS wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:18 amthe case of the pot.
Isn’t that an Agatha Christie book?
Re: Wiring woes - help me Shortscale
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 4:57 pm
by NickD
plopswagon wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 1:00 pm
NickS wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:18 amthe case of the pot.
Isn’t that an Agatha Christie book?
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