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• Thread starter GV Quinn
• Start date Apr 21, 2022
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GV Quinn

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Joined Jan 26, 2020 Messages 512 Reaction score 421 Bought a HSS wiring harness, used, James Tyler pickups hooked up. There’s a 473k resistor on tone 1, obviously for the 500k pots and single coils, but these resistors on the switch? What are these for? The pickups are 5500, made for 500k pots, so the 473k isn’t necessary here anyway, but I’m interested in the other resistors, what they could be intended for?

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67 goat

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Joined Apr 19, 2022 Messages 5,548 Reaction score 11,673 It's there to balance the humbucker and single coils. Whether it is the right balance for your particular pickups, no idea. Here is a video about it.

GV Quinn

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Joined Jan 26, 2020 Messages 512 Reaction score 421 Ok, but there’s already a 470k resistor on the tone knob. Is that normal? Same resistors everywhere?

67 goat

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Joined Apr 19, 2022 Messages 5,548 Reaction score 11,673 The one on the switch will generally be tied to where the single coil is to tame it a little so the two types of pickups play better together. It would be connected to the volume control. So that tone pot is probably 500K with a 470K (which is really a 500K resistor, essentially) resistor so that tone pot is essentially 250K. The resistor on the switch goes from the single coil switched area to the volume control so that for the single coils, the volume pot is seen as a 250K pot as well. So your single coil(s) will see 250K volume and 250K tone controls. Your humbucker will see 500K volume and 500K tone controls. The 470K value is used in both places because that is how the math works out (500K pot + 500K resistor = 250K pot).

67 goat

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Joined Apr 19, 2022 Messages 5,548 Reaction score 11,673 If the pickups were designed for 500K pots, that harness might take too much of the brightness out of your single coil 5500s. You can always hook it up and see if you like the sound, but you may also decide you do not want the extra loss of highs in the 250K portion of the circuit.

GV Quinn

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Joined Jan 26, 2020 Messages 512 Reaction score 421

67 goat said: If the pickups were designed for 500K pots, that harness might take too much of the brightness out of your single coil 5500s. You can always hook it up and see if you like the sound, but you may also decide you do not want the extra loss of highs in the 250K portion of the circuit. Click to expand...

Thought so, I assumed it’d be the tech who wired it not being aware of what these specific Tyler pickups were intended for. I’m asking questions cos I’m reluctant to change the entire wiring loom out. My ‘Strat’ is a Suhr Classic, it has their SSC system, not as simple a swap, don’t want to have to gut the entire innards. You must log in or register to reply here. Share: Facebook X (Twitter) Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email Share Link

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