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Deaf Eddie · January 30th, 2009, 04:06 PM

As indicated in the drawing, this scheme will leave the screw coil active, the slug coil gets shunted (off).

If you want to change that, it just takes a quick change of TWO of the lugs on the 3-way: clip the pink jumper between the two lugs (lower half), and add a jumper from the green lead to the open lug (upper half). The hot pink jumper that crosses the switch (upper to lower) is the series connection, and that's unchanged.

It doesn't matter where the cap's grounded leg hits ground, as long as it hits ground. The back of either pot is fine. This drawing just shows it the way Leo did it - he uses the grounded leg of the cap to connect the grounded lug of the volume pot to its case. If it's all grounded, it's all good.

January 30th, 2009, 04:06 PM	#9 (permalink)
Deaf Eddie Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sunny San Diego, CA Posts: 1,741 14 Photos	As indicated in the drawing, this scheme will leave the screw coil active, the slug coil gets shunted (off). If you want to change that, it just takes a quick change of TWO of the lugs on the 3-way: clip the pink jumper between the two lugs (lower half), and add a jumper from the green lead to the open lug (upper half). The hot pink jumper that crosses the switch (upper to lower) is the series connection, and that's unchanged. It doesn't matter where the cap's grounded leg hits ground, as long as it hits ground. The back of either pot is fine. This drawing just shows it the way Leo did it - he uses the grounded leg of the cap to connect the grounded lug of the volume pot to its case. If it's all grounded, it's all good. __________________ YMMV - I been wrong before...