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I just purchased 2 mini toggles to wire up some series/parallel/split options The toggles are ON/OFF/ON, and I should have purchased ON/ON/ON switches.
I checked the Duncan schematics and there is no reference to any ON/OFF/ON switches.
Can I use these? If so what for? If not, why are they sold from guitar pickup suppliers?

What guitar are you wanting to use these in? What pickups?

Some custom hollowbody that I built. I already tried coil splitting, but was thinking for even more tones I could rewire things up again and buy some more switches.
Is there anything I could use on/off/on switches for?
The pickups are a '59 neck, Custom V bridge.

i use an on-off-on in my HSH guitar it lets me select which coil i split .. green to one side (and ground) .. red and white to the middle .. black to the other side (and switch) .. in the off position, it is a full humbucker ... when 'up' it is the slug coil and when 'down' it is the screw coil
i used the same 2 pups you are talking about for neck and bridge .. i did a mag flip in the 59 and wired it backwards from the side with the C5 (both on the same on-off-on) .. so this let me get the PRS styled 'inner' and 'outer' coils in parallel while retaining hum cancelling ... i like it

hope this helps

t4d

I use on-off-on's quite a bit. For a humbucker, they allow north/full/south coil splitting. For tapped singles, they allow full/off/tapped operation. I have two guitars with these very switches now.

They could also be used on a tone control to switch between .022/off/.047 caps.

Using a stereo output jack, a pup could go left/off/right.

Lots of uses.


Originally Posted by ArtieTooI use on-off-on's quite a bit. For a humbucker, they allow north/full/south coil splitting. For tapped singles, they allow full/off/tapped operation. I have two guitars with these very switches now.

They could also be used on a tone control to switch between .022/off/.047 caps.

Using a stereo output jack, a pup could go left/off/right.

Lots of uses. WOW that is awesome. I am very interested in the north/full/south mod
How is it done? I totally understand the whole split thing, but only ONE of the coils.
Any help is way appreciated!


Originally Posted by tone4daysi use an on-off-on in my HSH guitar it lets me select which coil i split .. green to one side (and ground) .. red and white to the middle .. black to the other side (and switch) .. in the off position, it is a full humbucker ... when 'up' it is the slug coil and when 'down' it is the screw coil
i used the same 2 pups you are talking about for neck and bridge .. i did a mag flip in the 59 and wired it backwards from the side with the C5 (both on the same on-off-on) .. so this let me get the PRS styled 'inner' and 'outer' coils in parallel while retaining hum cancelling ... i like it

hope this helps

t4d

Brilliant. I'll try this. I honestly had no idea... Thanks!

it's time for tone4days' mad mad mad mad ASCII art class - ready kids!

today's lesson is how to wire an on-off-on mini-toggle switch for quot;north-full-southquot; coil splitting ... when doing it with TWO 4-wire double coil pickups at once, and a little magnet flipping, you can recreate the PRS style inner-parallel and outer-parallel options ...

Bb = Black wire from bridge pickup
Bn = Black wire from neck pickup
Gb = green wire from bridge pickup
Gn = green wire from neck pickup
RWb = red/white pair from bridge pickup
RWn = red/white pair from neck pickupBb == ==gt;[]---[]lt;====Gn

RWb====gt;[]---[]lt;====RWn

Gb == ==gt;[]---[]lt;====Bn

- the blue lines between the posts mean nothing - do not connect wires here
- flip the magnet on one pickup
- take the Gn and Bb to ground
- take the Gb and Bn to the switch

good luck
have fun
t4d

Thanks a million! You dudes rawk!