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Telecaster Control Plate Upgrade
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Connecting Your Wires
There is no industry standard for pickup wire lead colors. More common color pairs are red/black, red/white,
black/white and white/shield. You are advised to use consistency when connecting
your
pickup wire color pairs
to the
[+]
and
[–]
pickup connections on the green terminal strip (J1).
Determine which wire color for each pickup coil will be attached to the applicable
[+]
and
[–]
green terminal
strip connector on our PTM board. If one of the pickup wire connections is a shielded lead, always connect the
shield to a BLACK
[–]
wire to be inserted in the green terminal strip on our switching system.
Determine if there is enough wire length from each 2-wire pickup coil to
comfortably
reach the corresponding
connectors on the green terminal strip on the
Pickup Switch Upgrade
TM
circuit board. If not, refer to the
“Adding Extra Wire”
topic (page 1).
WARNING:
If your pickups have a metal bottom and if either pickup coil wire is grounded to this housing
(use an ohmmeter to check each wire to body), make sure your instrument’s body cavity is not lined with
grounded metal shielding and the pickup housing does not have a separate grounding wire.
Reason:
This will
cause the pickup to “short” to ground when the pickup switch is put into the regular/reverse phase. To fix this,
isolate the pickup housing from the body cavity shielding with soft foam.
Strip off 3/16” (4.76mm) insulation from the end of each pickup wire and also the input jack wires then twist
the exposed wire strands so they are tightly bound. Insert the wires of each pickup pair into the correct location
on the green terminal strip (J1) using the process described in the above
“Terminal Strip”
topic. Attach the
wires using either of the following instructions.
Use the two gray wire nuts (71B) to connect the wires labeled “IN” to the wires on your
input jack
. The red
wire goes to the hot lead (normally red) on the input jack and the black wire goes to the ground lead on the
input jack.
Note:
If you have a ground wire coming from the bridge (and maybe from body cavity shielding), connect them
to ground lead on the input jack.
