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Their 4 conductor cable was not designed properly- the cable itself is too thick and heavy for the tiny center conductors. Working in a small 3-pot control compartment with rear access is a nightmare.
I was just trying to wire up a coil cut switch which was already there but I hadn't been using it- I figured it'd be an hour tops but here it is hours later and I am still cussing up a storm. I may decide to pull the pickups, remove the nickel covers and replace the cable with something decent. BTW the pickups are the EJ Customs which have a very open sound with unbalanced coils to get a strat-like tone. For a coil-tap switch you want the hot connected to the green and not the red lead (one coil sounds okay by itself, the other is too darned weak. The DC resistance is pretty much the same; the difference is in the magnetic load.)
Steve Ahola
I was just trying to wire up a coil cut switch which was already there but I hadn't been using it- I figured it'd be an hour tops but here it is hours later and I am still cussing up a storm. I may decide to pull the pickups, remove the nickel covers and replace the cable with something decent. BTW the pickups are the EJ Customs which have a very open sound with unbalanced coils to get a strat-like tone. For a coil-tap switch you want the hot connected to the green and not the red lead (one coil sounds okay by itself, the other is too darned weak. The DC resistance is pretty much the same; the difference is in the magnetic load.)
Steve Ahola
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