Help check wiring modification to the Mustang 5.0 circuit

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Help check wiring modification to the Mustang 5.0 circuit

Post by fraggy0117 » Sun Dec 22, 2019 5:14 pm

I've been bouncing around ways to modify the Mustang 5.0 wiring scheme and still have in phase/out of phase options. What I've come up with involves 2 push/pull pots and the 2 standard mustang switches. If I could get another pair of eyes to look over my diagram to check for any issues, I'd appreciate it. I have some experience in guitar wiring but am by no means an expert.

The diagram:

https://imgur.com/Etq0fs4

Looking through the circuit, I think the different positions give the following results:

Neck/Series/IP Neck Only
Neck/Series/OoP Neck Only (switch hot&grnd)
Neck/Parallel/IP Neck Only
Neck/Parallel/OoP Neck Only (switch hot&grnd)
Neck/Dark/IP Neck Only (no Dark Cap)
Neck/Dark/OoP Neck Only (switch ground, no dark)
Both/Series/IP Both in Phase Series (grounds at series switch)
Both/Series/OoP Both in Out of Phase Series
Both/Parallel/IP Both in Parallel In Phase
Both/Parallel/OoP Both in Parallel Out of Phase
Both/Dark/IP Neck Only, or OoP Series w/ bridge through cap?
Both/Dark/OoP Dead?
Bridge/Series/IP Both in Series
Bridge/Series/OoP Both in Out of Phase Series
Bridge/Parallel/IP Bridge Only
Bridge/Parallel/OoP Bridge Only
Bridge/Dark/IP Bridge only, hot through dark cap
Bridge/Dark/OoP Bridge only, hot through dark cap

Does anyone see any glaring issues?

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Re: Help check wiring modification to the Mustang 5.0 circuit

Post by SY6655321 » Mon Dec 23, 2019 8:17 pm

That's a hell of an idea. My suggestion would be to post this in Shadoweclipse13's wiring thread:(viewtopic.php?f=8&t=104282).

Idk if this will help, but it's something I came up with :
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I've never tested it myself, but it should give you alot of options with the two 3-way switches.

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