86 Soloist Wiring Diagram

[bratfink]

Hi all,

Noob here, but have owned Jacksons since 95.

I have just got my hands on an 86 USA soloist (J1826) and am trying to restore the circuitry.

It has 2 passive humbuckers and what appears to be a preamp boost circuit (9V battery in the circuit). The volume pot is as usual but the other 2 pots are not connected to anythnig.

I am told these are a bass and treble boost controls for the preamp boost. I am also told that one of the pots should have a circuit board on the back but has been changed for a regular tone pot.

Does anyone have a wiring diagram for the original circuit?

That way I can work out which pot I need and how to get it all working again.

[jackson1]

Welcome bratfink. I can't help you much right now, but do you have any scribbling in the trem(?) cavity or elsewhere on the guitar? An example: VMT5W = Vol, Mid boost, Tone, 5-way switch. Hey, i also got a pic of a mid boost circuitry i've pulled. Maybe it can come in handy at some point..:

[dg]

Diagrams for the midboost are here:

http://www.jcfonline.com/resources/J...l/target7.html

http://www.jcfonline.com/resources/J.../target16.html

They only show it with a 5-way. No 3 mini-toggles if that's what you happen to have.

[bratfink]

Thanks guys, great links!

So it's the volume pot that should have the circuit board on the back. That means more has been changed than I originally thought.

I have a 5 way pickup selector lets me pick single coils of the humbuckers aswell as the usual selections found on the 3 way.

I'll pull the back plate off soon and have a look inside. No trem routing since it's a Kahler.

[jtr]

If I remember right it should be 1 N/h , 2 inside coils on both ,3N&B/h ,4 outside coils on both 5 B/h . The third pot might have been added most 86 Soloist only had V&T pots and some had JE1000 electronics .

[bratfink]

You might think that is how it would be wired, but it ain't What we have is 1 = n h, 2 = b h, 3 = out coils, 4 = in coils, 5 both h.

This has almost certianly been tampered with. Although I don't think that any pot holes (get it ?? :ROTF: ) have been added.

[dg]

I think you have a factory-installed JE-1200 midboost and the JE-0005 Special 5-way switch. There are a lot of different ways they can be wired, but it seems like the way jtr described is the most common.

Diagram for the switch (lower right):

http://www.jcfonline.com/resources/J.../target11.html

[bratfink]

I think I am supposed to, but the guitar seems to have been harvested at some point.

<img src="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...a-29da1d6682f2">

[bratfink]

I have put a 'wanted' post up. To be honest any of the active preamp setups would be nice, it doesn't have to be the original.

http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/show...883#post724883

Now we have identified what it should be, it might be hard to get the correct setup components. I just want an active control setup to work correctly and each of them has their merits.

[bratfink]

Errr,

Does anyone know where that post went?

[jackson1]

Don't know what you posted, but you're under 100 posts and a newbie, so if your post could be taken as a want-to-buy/sell type of post, you've been consored according to the rules of the JCF.

[bratfink]

gotcha, cheers. I'll have to wait until I am allowed to ask for the bits to put my guitar back on the road then.

Cheers for all your responses. Big help.