Socal wiring mods

[Zaneus]

I have a charvel Socal with a Dimarzio Evolution neck and Tonezone in the bridge. Both are 4 conductor pups and i'd like to wire in a tone pot and a 5 way switch to coil tap the pickups so i get this configuration:

1 Bridge full humbucking
2 Split outer bridge coil
3 Split inner coils of both neck and bridge
4 Split outer coil neck
5 Neck full humbucking

Colour codes for dimarsios are:
Red: North start
black: North finish
White: South start
Green: South finish

Now, i can't find any diagrams that show exactly what i need to do to the five way super switch to get the config i want. closest i've found is a seymour duncan diagram, except it leaves the middle position with both humbuckers on full. I can accept this, but i'd rather two pickups split in this situation. How can i wire that up? Can't find a diagram that explains each of the super switch positions and im fairly electronically dumb.

Here's the diagram: (I have done a fairly rough photoshop to change the wire colours to suit dimarzio.)


Can anyone show me how to get the two coils split in the 3rd position on the switch? any help will be much appreciated. Also just to confirm, to split the outer coils, i move that wire shown in the diagram off the ground and to the input of the volume pot? Thanks.

[Newc]

DiMarzio definitely needs to get a better setup for their wiring diagrams - make the easier to get to, and expand them like SD has.


But yeah, to split to the outer coils in 2 and 4, put that one wire on the pot instead of to Ground.


To get both split on 3:

Remove the Red wires in the diagram from the center tabs.

Now, jump the B+W wires to the center tabs on their side of the switch.


However, you want Outer coils on 2 and 4, but inner coils on 3, so that may be a different wiring scheme.


Anyway, following the above diagram, to split to the Inner coils, the B+W (which are the Outer coils) have to go to Ground. To get Outer coils, the Inner coils would have to go to Ground.

I think you'll need some way to swap the one lead of the switch to Ground and the Pot lug - maybe a push/pull.

[Zaneus]

Was having a think and came to the conclusion that i'd rather split the inner coils in both instances. The split bridge may come off as 'too' bright and i wouldn't use it much.

If i've understood correctly, this should work?:



Bridge full
Bridge inner coil split
Bridge / neck inner coils split
Neck innter coil split
Neck full

[Newc]

Yup

[Dred]

Here's a question I've wanted to ask for a while, but never got round to.

What exactly, makes a "Super" or "Special" 5-way "Super" or "Special"?
I assume it's the ability to split/run in parallel, but you can achieve that to some extent with a 3-way toggle. Is it the expanded wiring options or is there something more to it? (Apart from having way more lugs than you're ever going to use )

[Newc]

Here's a question I've wanted to ask for a while, but never got round to.

What exactly, makes a "Super" or "Special" 5-way "Super" or "Special"?
I assume it's the ability to split/run in parallel, but you can achieve that to some extent with a 3-way toggle. Is it the expanded wiring options or is there something more to it? (Apart from having way more lugs than you're ever going to use )

Yeah, it's the "way more lugs.." thing

"Super-Sized", and all that.


However, dont say it's got more lugs than you'll ever need. I've recently discovered it doesn' thave enough lugs for what I want to do

[Dred]

Yeah, it's the "way more lugs.." thing

"Super-Sized", and all that.


However, dont say it's got more lugs than you'll ever need. I've recently discovered it doesn' thave enough lugs for what I want to do

Yeah, that last one you tried just blew me the hell away. Like seriously, what the hell, dude?!

[Zaneus]

24 lugs isn't enough?! wth?! lol.

Also, for the 500k pots, is it worth getting "Audio tapered" pots? I've seen the word a few times and i was wondering if there's a difference. I picked up a 500k pot a few days ago and noticed the lugs were a bit different to the pots on my guitars. I wouldn't imagine there'd be a difference but i may as well ask.

Edit: Looking at the original diagram and the "modified" one. Shouldn't i leave the red wires where they are? For position 2 and 4 (Coil tapped) it has the white and black wires on AND the red wires. Why do i need to remove the red ones for position 3?

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