| Most of the wiring surrounds the mini toggles. OK, open your control cavity and look down into it with the neck and head of the guitar on your left and the "butt" of the guitar to your right. Let's start with the first mini toggle. This is the neck pickup controller. There's three lugs on that toggle, the very top one is where the hot output of the neck pickup should be wired to. The lowest lug of all the mini toggles is never used. The middle lug serves several purposes. First of all, it should connect to each of the other mini toggles' middle lug, which acts as a ground control. So there should be a wire going from the middle lug of the first mini toggle to the middle lug of the second mini toggle and to the middle lug of the third mini toggle. From any of the middle lugs of any of the mini toggles, a wire should connect to any control pot to ground all the switches to the pot. Normally this is done from the first mini toggle's middle lug to the tone or active circuit control pot. The second function of that middle lug of the first mini toggle is tone control. Now, from the middle lug of the first mini toggle, there should be a white wire that goes to the tone pot. The tone pot is the second pot control (the first pot after the active circuit). The white wire coming from the middle lug of the first mini toggle should go into the middle lug of the tone control pot. The final function of that middle lug of the first mini toggle is active circuitry connection. From the middle lug of the first mini toggle, there should be a white wire connecting to the active circuit board. On the circuit, this white wire connects to the upper most left corner of the board. Now let's focus on the second mini toggle, which is the pickup controller for the middle pickup. The uppermost lug should connect to the hot output of the middle position single coil. The middle lug (as discussed above) should be connected to all of the middle lugs of all the mini toggles. And (as discussed above) the last lug is never used. Go to the third mini toggle, which is the pickup controller for the bridge pickup. The uppermost lug should connect to the hot output of the bridge humbucker. This will be the black wire. The red and white wires from the pickup should be soldered together and taped off, they will not connect to anything. The green and bare wires from the pickup should be grounded to the back of any control pot. The second lug of the third mini toggle (as discussed above) should be connected to all of the middle lugs of all of the mini toggles. And, remember, the last lug is never used. Now, let's examine the active circuit board again. Remember that the upper most left white wire is to connect to the middle lug of the first mini toggle. Just below that white wire in the upper left corner, is a wire that should connect to the output jack. This is a ground wire, and connects to the jack's ground lug, which sort of sticks out to the side just a little. Just below that ground wire should be a red wire that connects to the battery clip's red wire. Now, on the far right side of the circuit board, at the top, is a blue wire. This blue wire should go from the active circuit board to the third control pot, the active boost pot. With the lugs facing to your right as you look at the active boost control pot, the blue wire should come from the active board into the lowest lug of the pot. Just under this blue wire on the active circuit board is a yellow wire. It should go from the active circuit board to the top lug (as you face the pot with the lugs to the right) of the active boost control pot. This completes the circuit board wiring. Take a look at the second control pot, the tone control. As you look at the tone control with its lugs to the right, the upper lug should have the tone capacitor wired from that upper lug to the top of the pot. Do not allow this upper lug to touch the pot, as is sometimes done with tone controls, just have the capacitor connect to that upper lug and to the top of the pot. The middle lug of the tone control (as discussed above) should connect to the middle lug of the first mini toggle switch. The lowest lug of the tone control is not used. Take a look at the last control pot, the active boost control. As you look at the active boost pot with its lugs to the right, the upper lug should have the yellow wire from the active circuit board connected to it (as discussed above). The lowest lug of this pot should be wired to the blue wire of the active circuit board (as discussed above). The middle lug of the active boost control pot should be wired to the output jack, this is the output of the guitar signal. This white wire should connect to the jack's lug opposite the ground wire feeding in from the active circuit board (as discussed above). Now examine the battery clip. The red wire should connect to the active circuit board (as discussed above). The black wire from the clip needs to go into the middle lug of the output jack. This acts as the "on/off" control for the active circuitry. Now, examine the output jack (which really has been discussed all above). The battery black wire goes in the middle, the hot output from the middle lug of the active boost control pot goes at the upper lug, and the black ground wire from the active circuit board goes to the lowest lug. One final word about grounding. Each of the single coil pickups have a hot and a ground wire. The ground wire is bare, the hot wire should have a bit of plastic insulation around it. Connect the hot wire to the upper lug of the appropriate mini toggle switch as discussed above. The ground wires need to be connected to the back of any control pot. You can solder each one down individually, or, you can combine the ground wires and then solder that entire part to the pot. Remember to make sure that each mini toggle is connected across to the other middle lugs of the other mini toggles, and that there is also a ground wire from any of the middle lugs of the mini toggles to the back of any control pot. This should successfully complete the wiring, if you have difficulties or questions, give me a shout, I want this to work for you. Rock on! Joe |