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Telecaster Control Plate Upgrade
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2. TELECASTER UPGRADE
You have received an assembled and tested
Telecaster Upgrade
designed to install into a standard American
Telecaster guitar. It contains one of our
high performance
Pickup Switch Upgrade
TM
products, one tone and
volume control with matching knobs. No soldering is needed to install this product. You will use your own
pickups. The following items are included in a Parts Bag.
•
An AweSome Musical Instruments headstock decal to apply to your instrument
•
Several business cards to pass out to friends
•
An equal length each of black and red insulated wire (to lengthen pickup and input jack wire if needed)
•
2 or 4 yellow/clear connectors (UY2) to make pickup wire extension connections if needed
•
2 grey wire nuts (71B) to connect input jack wires to your Telecaster control plate upgrade product
Preparation
If needed, remove your strings. Remove your existing control plate attaching screws. Lift it out and document
how your instrument is wired (see
Preamble
on page 1)
before
you start this upgrade.
Disconnect the
input jack
hot and ground wires from your stock control plate. The wires stay on the input jack.
Cut the
pickup wires
from the 3-way (or 5-way) pickup switch so all wires are of maximum length. If needed,
disconnect the bridge ground wire. Remove your original control plate. Temporarily stow the input jack wires
and pickup wires within the body cavity.
Confirm that the
Telecaster Upgrade
will lay completely flat and within the routed body cavity with no
interference by the wood body. If the
Telecaster Upgrade
lays flat on your instrument and the plate mounting
holes line up with the body mounting holes, proceed to the next section,
Terminal Strip,
to continue with the
upgrade process.
If your
Telecaster Upgrade
mounting holes and body mounting holes do not line up, or you have a control
plate body cavity with a non-standard dimension preventing the upgrade product from being installed,
see page
10 – Solving Installation Issues
for information that identifies how to easily resolve these issues.
Terminal Strip
Here is how to attach wires to the
green
terminal strip (J1) that is on the PTM circuit board. Use a small
screwdriver or writing pen tip and press down on the square
release button
located directly above the wire hole.
Hold the button down and insert the stripped wire completely into the wire connection hole and then release the
button. Lightly tug on the wire to confirm it is firmly gripped by the Terminal Strip. A legend is printed on the
circuit board with the name of each terminal strip wire hole from left to right. Attach each wire to the correct
terminal strip hole. In all instances, the
GND
and
VOL
wires from the Volume/Tone control circuit displayed in
Figure 2
to the wire connection holes on the terminal strip are already connected.
T2-Switch (6-hole terminal strip): [GND] [VOL] [+]
NECK
[-] [+]
BRDG
[-]
T3-Switch (8-hole terminal strip): [GND] [VOL] [+]
Coil-3
[-] [+]
Coil-2
[-] [+]
Coil-1
[-]
T4-Switch (10-hole terminal strip): [GND] [VOL] [+]
NECK2
[-] [+]
NECK1
[-] [+]
BRDG2
[-] [+]
BRDG1
[-]
Caution: Do not insert hard items in the wire holes because it will decrease reliable electrical connection.
