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The Pickup Place / Re: Need help with Dimarzio HSS configuration on a 1989 Fender HM Strat

« on: January 28, 2017, 11:00:43 AM »

This is great stuff Stephen. I appreciate your patience with helping me sort this out. My goal is to get back to original wiring configuration Fender/Dimarzio intended and the sound I remember and love. Assuming you a musician, I'm sure you understand how important that is -- You don't mess with a guitar player's sound anymore than you do his woman. 

The issue I have with the hand-drawn "Official HM Strat Wiring Diagram" from 1988 is that with the exception of the White wire for each pickup going to the 5-way, 1) they don't indicate where the remaining wires are soldered in relation to color and 2) I have more wires one each pickup than indicated on the drawing (maybe a difference between 1988 and 1989 - mine). My single coils have 3 wires each, and my humbucker 5, whereas the Fender diagram does not. Lastly, 3) if the "Official" diagram provided to me by Fender is correct, my single coils are not correct to specification either and I can tell from the soldering connections that they were changed by the Tech... which ****** me off, but that is another subject all together.

I did find a number of images of HSS Dimarzio configurations, but nothing as of yet (still looking) that match my wiring colors and quantity per pickup plus configuration that includes a Coil tap -- not that it doesn't exist.

So, if you don't mind me humbling asking, unless you might know the official and complete Dimarzio/Seymour Duncan HSS 5-way setup with Coil tap image I need, what configuration would you believe should I be attempting? You stated that I could have Black/White to the coil tap, or Green/Red to the coil tap. But if we wipe the slate clean, I might be able to guess based upon assumption what it should be. However, with someone who is professionally experienced with this everyday, what should I really do? So here is the wiring for each pickup I was thinking:

5w = 5-Way connector; G = Ground; CT = Coil Tap

Neck:

• Blue -- 5w (5)
  White -- G
  Black -- G

Middle:

• Red -- 5w (3)
  White -- G
  Black -- G

If I'm correct, I believe the B/W is the North pickup and R/G is the South (closest to bridge)?
Bridge (Humbucker):

• Black -- 5w (1)
  White -- G
  Red -- CT w/ Green to single connection
  Green -- CT/ Red to single connection
  Bare -- G

I'm uncertain where to solder the Red/Green on the Coil tap, I saw variations on this. All I can say is what I stated at the start of the fourm, which the link has a schematic (Salecom T80-T on/on).


Coil Tap:


From there, I will wire it and let everyone and you know the results.

Thanks again. I appreciate the help so much.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Need help with Dimarzio HSS configuration on a 1989 Fender HM Strat

« on: January 23, 2017, 08:29:37 PM »

Thanks for the reply Stephan.

Thanks for looking at this. I didn't think the picture attached.

The switch has a bare wire solder to a metal tab in the picture. This tab is actually like a washer with a tab that slips over the toggle switch and contacts the metal casing on the switch. A bare wire is solder to the switch middle left connector and a black wire is soldered from there to the ground on the low tone tab.

I believe and trust you know what you are talking about, but it isn't working properly and it sounds absolutely horrible. It's nothing but mud. When I flip the switch up or down, both coils are active. I can tell in two ways. 1) When I flip the coil tap, I do not receive the single coil hum while in the bridge position only, and 2) I can tap each coil to test whether they are active or not, and both are active despite the up or down position. So something is not correct. I may need to find the correct schematic somewhere.

I've looked at what is called the "Official" HM Strat diagram on the Internet and it is incomplete, and looking nothing like an what I know an official Fender wiring diagram looks like.

I actually came back to edit this because I read within the "Wiring Diagrams and Stuff" that Dimarzio was good about making requested wiring diagrams. I did not see in the existing Dimarzio diagrams that there was one that I could correlate back to my configuration. Is it possible for one to be created in I provide the following:

The HM Strat configuration is:

1 Volume, 2 Tone (High/Low); Neck, Neck/Middle, Middle, Bridge/Middle, Bridge.  The Bridge has a coil split switch for Single/Humbucker option.

Wires:
Neck: Blue, White (Black)
Middle: Red, White, (Black)
Bridge: Bare, Green, Red, Black, White

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The Pickup Place / Need help with Dimarzio HSS configuration on a 1989 Fender HM Strat

« on: January 21, 2017, 10:13:30 PM »

Hello:

I own a Fender HM Strate with a Dimarzio HSS pickup configuration with a split bridge. I need help in determining the wiring color associations on the Dimarzio humbucker (i.e. Bare - White - Black - Red - Green). The music store that replaced coil mini switch did not correctly solder the replacement switch. However, I did not test it before putting the guitar in storage and then pulling it out today 4 years later. Currently the soldered connections for the humbucker is:

Bare   - Grounded
White - Grounded
Black - 5 way
Red & Green - connected to a single connector on a Salecom T80-T on/on switch.

I can no longer switch the humbucker between single coil and humbucker. But I don't know the wire associations to correctly solder these correctly to the replacement mini toggle.

Before replacement of the mini coil tap there were two types of 5 way sequences.

1) Bridge (as humbucker) -- Bridge (as humbucker) & Middle -- Middle -- Middle & Neck -- Neck

2) Bridge (as Single Coil) -- Bridge (as Single Coil) & Middle -- Middle -- Middle & Neck -- Neck


After replacement of the mini coil tap I only have option #1 above no matter the coil tap switch position. It is a Salecom T80-T on/on (T8011).

 The switch on/on diagram is located here: https://www.salecom.com/en/product/Toggle-Switches/t8011.html