User manual CARVIN PICKUP WIRING

[. . . ] CARVIN PICKUP WIRING INSTRUCTIONS LOCATING PICKUPS ON THE GUITAR Determine where you want to locate your pickup(s). Then find the center line of the neck and draw a center line on the body. [. . . ] Neck pickup coil A together with bridge pickup coil B sounds more like a telecaster. Neck pickup coil B & bridge pickup coil A together sound more like a Stratocaster. WIRING THE CONTROLS If you are using one of the Carvin circuits, just follow the desired wiring diagram. You should install a ground wire that runs from the tailpiece or bridge to the control area. Solder this ground wire to the back of one of the potentiometers. Be careful not to use excessive heat when soldering to the potentiometers or switches as you may damage them. Fig 1. Coil "A" on in single coil mode. GRN PICKUP BL K SHIE LD WHT SERIES/PARALELL S3 W RED G R PHASE SWITCH WIRING A phase switch can be wired into any two or three pickup guitar. As the diagram below shows, only one pickup is hooked up to the phase switch. The phase switch will only function when another pickup is used in conjunction with the pickup that is switched out of phase. The phase switch will give a nasal muted type sound with slightly less output. TO GROUND HOT TO VOLUME OR SELECTOR SW. TO GROUND B TO HOT OUT Fig 2. Coil "B" on in single coil mode. GRN G PICKUP RE D LD WHT HOT OUT Note: Solder green and white wires together unless otherwise specified. For pickups SHIE that do have the green wire disregard this note. BLK S3 HOT OUTPUT TO VOLUME OR SELECTOR W PHASE SWITCH WIRING W G RED BLK & SHLD to GRND R TO GROUND SERIES/SPLIT/PHASED ON/ON/ON PICKUP LD Fig 3. BLK S3 This wiring gives you three different sounds. (As used on the TL60-33 circuit) S2 SHIE PICKUP HOT OUTPUT TO VOLUME OR SELECTOR TO GROUND SHIELD TO GROUND RED WHT GRN BLK HOT OUTPUT TO VOLUME OR SELECTOR TO GROUND KIT 30 Single pickup guitar with volume, tone & coil splitter. KIT 40 2 Pickup guitar with a 3-way pickup selector, 1 volume & 1 tone KIT 40 DC127 (includes 2 coil splitters) For 2 Pickup guitar. [. . . ] Use these templates to route for Carvin pickups. Templates are exact size. AP11 Routing Template ROUT 5/8" DEEP 5/64" DRILL 1/2" DEEP 3/4" 3" 3 5/16" C22, H22 & M22 Routing Template ROUT 5/8" DEEP 5/64" DRILL 1/2" DEEP 1 7/16" 1 1/2" ROUT 1" DEEP 3 5/32" 3 5/16" H50N & J99 Routing Template 5/64" DRILL 1/2" DEEP ROUT 9/16" DEEP 1 7/32" 13/16" 15/16" 1 9/16" 3 3/4" [. . . ]