help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

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help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by 2fLAz » Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:35 am

Hi guys

I am trying to build a strange guitar wiring involving a 2 position tele lever switch. Yeah you red well, a 2 way lever switch.
And also 1 pot only for volume.

What I want to do ? Pos 1 (lever close to neck) VOL for pickup / Pos 2 (lever close to bridge) pickup straight to output.

Is that doable ? Can someone point me to such wiring diagram as I can't seem to find any over the web.

Would alternatively consider a wiring with a 3 way lever switch that would be 1 kill / 2 volume / 3 straight pu out

Thanks in advance for you help
Cheers
Fabz

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by 2fLAz » Fri Mar 23, 2018 5:00 am

i mean no one has an hint for me ?

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by MechaBulletBill » Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:51 am

I think you can wire a 3-way so that two positions do the same thing? Or just do the kill/with pot/straight to jack idea.

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by 2fLAz » Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:52 am

thanks for your reply
If I could do kill/with pot (vol only, will not use a tone) /straight to jack it would be awesome !

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by 2fLAz » Tue May 29, 2018 12:04 am

bumping this one
still looking for help on how to wire this
thanks :)

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by ludobag1 » Tue May 29, 2018 12:14 am

have you look at esquire wiring ,i think ducan still have schematics

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by 2fLAz » Tue May 29, 2018 12:21 am

yes I did but they haven't it with a kill switch position
bummer....

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by ludobag1 » Tue May 29, 2018 12:24 am

you need to cross some wiring
the first
https://www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-di ... -all,teles
and a second
a kill switch is just signal to ground (instead going to pickup you go to the ground
for kill switch
https://www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-di ... ching-misc
and for 3 way translation
https://www.seymourduncan.com/wiring-di ... ching-misc

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by timtam » Tue May 29, 2018 12:44 am

You need a DPDT switch, like the push-pull used for similar purpose here ...
http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... h-mod.html
.. or the toggle switch here ...
http://guitarwiring.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... witch.html

You take the single input (from your single pickup) and either send it direct to the output jack, or to - and from - the vol pot.
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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by 2fLAz » Tue May 29, 2018 1:11 am

thanks guys
I would like to avoid the extra switch
I believe it can be done with the standard tele lever switch

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by ludobag1 » Tue May 29, 2018 1:58 am

for sure
wire the leveler for
position 1 pickup + volume
pos 2 pickup without voulme direct to ground
pos 3 kill switch ( signal jack to selector to ground)

i look at i have time but it is not hard to do
i take the selector wiring on seymour hope yours is similar ,if not you just have to test with a multimeter to know what contact work with the other side

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by ludobag1 » Tue May 29, 2018 2:52 am

done Fab ;)


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you can choose between position 2 and 3 you just need to invert the wire from jack or volume to have the invert way volume or no with

where on the selector i have writen 1 /2/3 is the position and also the short you have to wire the other side of the selector

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by ludobag1 » Tue May 29, 2018 3:25 am

i forget to put the signal to ground in kill switch if not you will have hum :fp:
corrected

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by 2fLAz » Tue May 29, 2018 3:34 am

wow
thanks Ludo !
I presume the Vol pot needs to have the unused leg grounded right ?

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Re: help needed for 2 position tele lever switch wiring (or alt 3 way)

Post by ludobag1 » Tue May 29, 2018 4:00 am

yes as always
try this normally i miss nothing
it is hard to cut 2 signal ,big headhache , :D

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