Megaswitch Question for HH Wiring

[mikeboone]

I bought a P model switch and 2 HB's (JB and Jazz). The instructions that came from Stew Mac are not clear. I am trying wire them into my Strat.

Their terminology doesn?t match anything I can find on the SD website.

I need to know what color wires from the SD pickups match the Megaswitch instructions:

1. Series link (coil-tap) of neck pickup
2. Hot output, to volume pot
3. Series link (coil-tap) of bridge pickup
4. Ground (without shield) from bridge pickup
5. To ground (back of volume pot)
6. Hot wire from neck pickup
7. Hot wire from bridge pickup

I am having no luck finding a clear cross reference and any help would be appreciated.

Also, what is the scoop on the need to flip my magnet in one pickup?

Thanks,
Mike

[David Schwab]

Right at the Stew-Mac site:

Seymour Duncan Humbucking Pickups: Color codes

Black is hot, green is ground, and red and white are the series connection.

When they say "shield" it's the bare drain wire in the 4 conduction cable. So the neck pickup gets the bare wire and green wire connected to ground, but the bridge pickup has it's green wire connected to the switch without the bare wire, which is grounded separately (to the volume pot case in their diagram.

All the Stew-Mac electronics "Free Information" is here:

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electronics.html

[mikeboone]

Thanks...

It was the Series Link term that I could make a correlation to. Its all done and sounds pretty nice. Very versatile.

Mike

[David Schwab]

Cool! I have a few of those switches of the various types. The one problem is the bags aren't labeled, so I had no idea which was which. That was a real PITA. I had to go through each position and figure out which switch it was. Then I wrote on them with a sharpie.

I keep meaning to mention that to them.