The positions were wrong, but the numbers were correct. You should have it wired correctly. What I can see is right, but there are some things that I can't see in those pics.

Pin 1 should be on the right in that pic. Is that the case?

The Original 'E' Model Megaswitch brings out the five best possible sounds from 3-pickup combinations of single-coils or humbuckers. It replaces a standard 5-way Strat®-style switch, for new wiring options plus coil-tapping, and lets the guitarist combine pickup coils for hum elimination.

The Megaswitch is recommended for the following pickup combinations:



Before installing the Original 'E' model Megaswitch
Determine the polarity of each pickup coil, and which wires are connected to each coil:

Similar magnet poles repel each other, and opposite poles attract. For a humbucking effect, two coils with opposite polarity must be connected either in parallel or in serial mode. Take the pickup that you want to use in the middle position, and place its top side against the top side of another pickup coil. If their magnet polepieces attract each other, they have opposite polarity. Or you can use the #5127 Polarity Tester to do this without removing the pickups.

To identify the wires leading to each coil of a humbucker, connect the wires to a multimeter (set to 200mV) and slightly touch the polepieces of each coil with an iron-bearing object (a screwdriver or allen wrench). If you get a swing on the multimeter, you have identified that coil's leads.

When you have finished analyzing and soldering the pickups, certain sounds may be “thin,” or out of phase. In this case, exchange the hot wire of the affected humbucker with its ground connection; the shield wire remains grounded. If the correct coils are connected but the sound is still too thin, change the 4-conductor wiring of the affected humbucker as follows: Solder the hot and ground wires together as a new coil-tap. Use the former coil-tap wires as the new hot and ground. Recheck the assignment of the wires to the coils, and connect them according to the next section, "Schematics for the Original 'E' Model Megaswitch".

Always mount the Megaswitch with the printed circuit board closest to the pickups and control pots. Insert the wires from the non-printed side of the plate, and solder from the printed side. The soldering points on the plate are labeled from 1 to 7. On the switch there is a large silver lug attached with a screw. This is not one of the seven numbered lugs above and is not used.



Wiring schematics for Original 'E' Model Megaswitch
Please refer to the pickup manufacturer's wiring diagram to identify which wires are hot and ground. Always ground the lug on the soldering plate mounting screw.


2 humbuckers
Point # Wire assignment
1 empty
2 neck pickup hot wire
3 output to volume pot
4 ground to volume pot
5 neck pickup coil tap
6 bridge pickup coil tap
7 bridge pickup hot wire

Humbucker/single-coil/humbucker
Point # Wire assignment
1 middle pickup hot wire
2 neck pickup hot wire
3 output to volume pot
4 ground to volume pot
5 neck pickup coil tap
6 bridge pickup coil tap
7 bridge pickup hot wire

Humbucker/single-coil/single-coil
Point # Wire assignment
1 middle pickup hot wire
2 neck pickup hot wire
3 output to volume pot
4 ground to volume pot
5 empty
6 bridge pickup coil tap
7 bridge pickup hot wire

3 single-coils
Point # Wire assignment
1 middle pickup hot wire
2 neck pickup hot wire
3 output to volume pot
4 empty
5 empty
6 solder jumper to 7
7 bridge pickup hot wire

Original 'E' Model Megaswitch tone control wiring tips
When installing the Original 'E' Model Megaswitch, you often must rewire the tone circuit. If the instrument will have a single or master tone control, wire the volume and tone pots as shown at right:

Strat-style installations which have two tone controls, one for the neck pickup and the other for the middle pickup, should be wired as shown at right:


Because the Original 'E' Model Megaswitch doesn't allow the middle pickup to be used by itself, you may want a tone control for the neck and bridge pickups. To do this, wire the lower tone pot's lead to lug 7 instead of lug 1.

Both set-ups have their advantages. A middle tone control only affects the “2” and “4” (the “Strat out of phase”) positions. A bridge position tone control affects three of the five switch positions: bridge pickup only; bridge and middle pickups; and bridge and neck pickups.

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the above is from the stewmac sight and they have some diagrams too, but I could not get them to copy. should I just take the pg out and restring the neck to protect neck and take better pictures ????? Im sorry for not doing so.

Yes, it goes from 7 on the left to 1 on far right....so I put your 7 on my 7 when you wanted it on 1...... NO...it WAS on 1, I was wrong.

No, my numbers have always been the correct numbers. If you connected 7 to 7, it is correct. Do not reverse the wires transposing numbers. The numbers have always been correct.

Let's try it this way. The numbers on the diagram do not represent locations in space. They represent the numbers that are marked on the Megaswitch next to the holes that the wires go in. Number 1 in my drawing is the hole on the Megaswitch with the number 1 next to it. That's all that matters.

So, if you put the wires into the holes next to the numbers that were marked on the diagram, they are in the correct holes.

Good Golly Miss Molly...
You better get this thing on youtube for us to hear it after it gets wired!

Sure has been a process.

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so my not hooking up the red and white together may be the only thing wrong now?

Those wires aren't used at all with your current Bridge pup. They just need to be out of the way somewhere. They can be connected together or insulated separately. It doesn't matter in this setup.

I'd like to see a picture of the PCB side of the Megaswitch & a picture of the wiring on your tone pot.

And, does the Black wire from the Middle pickup go to pin 1 on the Megaswitch?

I will take it apart right now...I just got home from work.

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Blk from bottom rt of blender to 7 on mega, then jumper from 7 to 6
red and white from bottom of lib left together
jumper from 4 to 3 3 to upper middle left on push pull
2 mega to top left on blender
blk from middle on mega is on 1 red on ground
Model 29 is on 10th hole on right side of the 10 holes in lib
Grnds from springs are doubled up on left of back of lib in first postion of the 4 holes,
black from jack on second hole white from jack on third hole and red in 4th position to push pull bottom middle

YES

I bought new strings.......cant wait to hear this baby make some sounds !!!!!!

So, taking pictures made it work? Whahappin?

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