Need wiring for killswitch, quick

[Mr. E]

I have a SPDT switch and I want to wire a killswitch. I've looked around, but haven't found anything for this switch or at least something clear about it.

 

Can anybody tell me how to wire it into a killswitch(if possible)?

 

Thanks

 

 

Note:

Customer Service, you could delete this after I get an answer.

[carverman]

Go to the Gr*tsch site and study a schematic for a 61xx.

It's pretty simple. They call it a standby switch.

http://www.gretschguitars.com/resources/schematic3.pdf

 

All you need is a spst switch that grounds the signal wire

at the jack or before the jack.

 

So one contact goes to the signal wire and the middle contact goes

to pot/jack gnd.

[Mr. E]

Go to the Gr*tsch site and study a schematic for a 61xx.

It's pretty simple. They call it a standby switch.

http://www.gretschguitars.com/resources/schematic3.pdf

 

All you need is a spst switch that grounds the signal wire

at the jack or before the jack.

 

So one contact goes to the signal wire and the middle contact goes

to pot/jack gnd.

 

 

I thought of putting the ground wire on the middle and the pot/jack gnd. on one side and leave the other alone.

[layboomo]

 

 

I thought of putting the ground wire on the middle and the pot/jack gnd. on one side and leave the other alone.

 

Nope the point is to bring the + lead to ground to kill the signal...not just lift the ground...see the difference?

[carverman]

 

 

I thought of putting the ground wire on the middle and the pot/jack gnd. on one side and leave the other alone.

 

No..go by what Layboomo is trying to tell you. The hot wire has to be grounded

completely to stop any noise pickup..that is the same as shorting out the

tip/sleeve of the guitar cord jack.

 

BTW: The center terminal on the mini-toggle

is the "movable contact" that contacts either one side (terminal) or the other

side (terminal) depending on how the switch is thrown in a spst or even a dpst.

 

In a "on/off/on" switch, the center movable contact has a inbetween position

and doesn't contact either end terminal, leaving the center or common terminal

"open circuit"..as you probably found out with your previous wiring experiment.

[shartom]

Planet Waves sell a cable with the kill switch built into the plug. I bought one a couple of weeks ago and it works great especially when I play multiple guitars during a gig.

If you insist, you must ground the hot lead at the output jack which is exactly what the PW cable does with a lot less fuss.

[Dave]

Or, you can put that SPDT switch into a stomp box. It can be a wooden block drilled for the cord on both ends and the switch in the middle. Wire it so that the center conductor switches to ground to kill and back to the center conductor to pass the signal normally on to the amp. It can be a momentary switch or a push-push type. This way you don't drill holes in your guitar.

 

Momentary or Push-Push depends on what you want to do with it. If you are looking for a staccato chord break sound, use a momentary. If you are looking to kill the sound to change guitars, use a push-push.