castaway
First Lieutenant   Posts: 2 Registered: 11/21/2006 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/21/2006 at 22:00 |
hey, to all. I have an Ibanez Roadstar 2 series. Must be an 80's model.
The toggle switch/ pick-up selector went bad about a year ago. I got a new
toggle for it, but i'm not exactly sure how to install it. I went to
Ibanez.com, but their diagrams only go back to 2000. The numbers on back of
guitar are D844187. If there's anyone help out there, i would sure
appreciate it. the old toggle was one wire to each position, then a
seperate wire from them connected together to, must be to form ground.
tried that with new toggle, with no luck. Please help
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brian
Moderator   Posts: 1038 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 11/21/2006 at 23:05, Reply 1 |
Is it a 5 way strat style switch and does it have 3 single coils?
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castaway
First Lieutenant Posts: 2 Registered: 11/21/2006 Status: Offline |
posted on 11/22/2006 at 10:57, Reply 2 |
no, it's a three position toggle( up, down, and middle). the neck pickup is
the original ibanez humbucker, and who ever had the guitar before me, put
in a dimarzio double coil,humbucker, for the bridge. No single coils at
all. In the body of the guitar behind the knobs, there's the bridge volume
knob, neck volume knob, and the master volume knob. There's a wire from
each knob, obviously connecting to the new toggle. But, coming from each of
the wires, there's a separate, thicker wire. I'm assuming these are for
grounding. Maybe i'm wrong though. Tried it, but no luck.
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1038 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 11/22/2006 at 11:26, Reply 3 |
That complicates things a bit... You have a spdt switch with 2 humbuckers
and 3 volume knobs 1 for the master and 1 for each humbucker pickup.
Now you have one dimarzio humbucker which has a red,black,white and green
wire. The red and white wires ar + hot or positive and the green and black
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Is the other humbucker a original Ibanez? And how do you want to wire
it...Standard in series? or do you have something else in mind.
The standard way is to solder the 2 middle wires together black -and white
+ and tape them off.
it depend on the sound your looking for?
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tattoo
Captain   Posts: 270 Registered: 7/31/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 11/27/2006 at 23:16, Reply 4 |
makes questions hard when they don't know what they want.
[Edited on 11/28/2006 by tattoo] ____________________
Get the name to sell first then the trend makes millions.
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what_the_fudge
First Lieutenant Posts: 5 Registered: 12/1/2006 Status: Offline |
posted on 12/1/2006 at 10:39, Reply 5 |
http://www.guitartechcraig.com/
diagrams section on there you may find useful
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