Push Pull Pot Wiring Options

This setup gives you the option to change the middle position from being both pickups in parallel to being both pickups in series.

Push pull pot wiring options. When you coil tap a 4 wire humbucker all you are doing is short circuiting coil 1 when the switch is activated pulled up. In a standard les paul circuit replace one of the tone pots with a push pull pot wired to create a coil tap in the bridge pickup. This setup kicks in the single coil sound any time you pull the knob on the push pull pot giving you more tonal flexibility than a standard les paul. 3 way tele with series parallel option push pull tone pot similar to the above wiring setups but this version uses a dpdt on on on 3 position switch for the pickup selector switch.

The tele wiring i am most tempted to try is the one where you have master volume knob closest to the pickup for easier swells then a blender pot on the middle knob to merge the pickups and then two values of resistor say 250k and 100k wired to the 3 way switch for the tone control options i think this would provide a lot of variety and if the pickups were rw rp you d get hum. Complete with wiring diagram each kit features trusted components used for decades in gibson and other iconic american instruments. Coil splitting with a push pull pot. Premium wiring kits feature premium components like.

A coil tap lets you access just one of a humbucker s two coils. Now solder a wire from the right bottom tab of the push pull pot to the back of the push pull. So if your are wiring up as a standard humbucker the black wire gets connected to the back of a pot and the green wire goes to the input lug of the volume pot. Wiring diagram however when you solder the red and white together for each humbucker do not tape them.

When the push pull pot is down lug 3 and the cap are both connected to ground. Now normally we would be finished but since we want to add coil splitting there s one more step. Below you ll find a range of wiring diagrams covering the most common push pull pot wiring mods for your setup including coil splitting series parallel switch wiring and even how to use a push pull pot to act as both a volume and a tone control. Three tabs top to bottom on the left and three on the right.

When your push pull pot is down all the wiring is the same as a strat or a tele. For humbucking pickups with series link access 3 wire 5 wire etc. They connect to ground via connecting to terminals c e of the push pull pot. If you look at the push pull pot you will see the tabs for the push pull switch.

Solder the red and white wires from the pickup to the right center tab of the push pull pot. Cts push pull pots split the coils of humbuckers for single coil operation. Instead wire the red and white wires from each humbucker to the push pull pot and have it switch them to ground when pulled out. This is shown for one pickup in this diagram.

When you pull up on the shaft of the pot you activate the top four lugs which are connected to the top pot creating continuity between the top two left and top two right lugs.