Fender Strat Input Jack Wiring

The primary lead is the short lug that connects to the longer bent flange and the long lug is the power battery switch that connects to the short bent flange.

Fender strat input jack wiring. Strat style guitar wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch 1 volume 2 tones. Photo 3 shows the wiring for a stereo open jack and photo 4 is a stereo barrel jack. Jack 1 the high gain jack has a 1 meg 1 000 000 ohms resistor wired across the jack from the hot tab to the ground tab and the grounded lead of the resistors is bent back and soldered to the middle tab the switch the switch is grounded on jack 1. A stereo jack can be used for stereo wiring or to enable onboard active electronics when a 1 4 mono plug is inserted.

Choose the long thread jack for guitars and basses that have a thick top or control plate. A mono jack is suitable for most guitars. Most of our older guitar parts lists wiring diagrams and switching control function diagrams predate formatting which would allow us to make them available on this page as pdf files. Tie white green wires together ground and solder to volume pot.

Jack mounted circuit on the left circuit board version on the right. If you do not find the list or diagram for your specific instrument on this page we may still be able to furnish you with a hard copy from our archive. The ground lug attaches to the case. The contents of this diagram in whole or part are copyrighted and published for.

Take orange wires hot. With the switch open you have the high input and switch closed you get the low. The switch inserts a 33k 33k voltage divider which dumps half the guitar audio signal to ground just like a standard fender low input jack. Photo 3 photo 4.

If the socket has been circling round in the housing it could have mucked the way the wires are laid in there. Soldering station solder type my preferred type hakko fx888d 23by digital soldering station fx 888d fx 888. The extra threads give the nut a bit more to bite on.