Idea/Invention - Need input guys

[Hellbat]

EMG has quick connect kits for their pickups, but yeah it would be nice if the major players got together and came up with standardized pinouts and connections that use simple push on connectors.

[emperor_black]

Just use screw type connectors instead of soldering and you're done.

soldering can be a little intimidating. use a sharp knife/blade to scratch the surface you're soldering first and then just attach with a tiny bit of solder. even if the surface looks clean the scratching will make it rough enough for the solder to hold on.

[silar]

Just use screw type connectors instead of soldering and you're done.

soldering can be a little intimidating. use a sharp knife/blade to scratch the surface you're soldering first and then just attach with a tiny bit of solder. even if the surface looks clean the scratching will make it rough enough for the solder to hold on.

I've been soldering for years. I'm an electronics nut and have rewired tons of guitars, but when you have a guitar with 6 ground wires attaching to one pot, you can either try to hold all the wires together and solder them with a big glob, or spread them out and solder each individually to the pot, or solder each wire to a thin copper bar, or break out of the norm and put some sort of common bus terminal to connect each wire to with only soldering 1 lug to the pot. My point is that if everyone had the last option, would you still solder a ton of wires to a pot?

[markD]

i am just curious as to what you are wiring that has 6 grounds to the top of the pot!!!!!

[Axewielder]

i am just curious as to what you are wiring that has 6 grounds to the top of the pot!!!!!

Well take a H-S-S V-T-T Floyded Jackson. You might have three pickup cavity shield ground wires, a bridge ground wire, a ground wire for the output jack, 3 pickup ground wires, plus three more ground wires for the pots. We are up to ten!

[silar]

i am just curious as to what you are wiring that has 6 grounds to the top of the pot!!!!!

That was more or less just a hypothetical expression. Say you have 3 pickups HSS combination, so that's 3 grounds, then any shielding in the pickup cavities, that's 3 more, then the trem, then some people shield their trem cavity, then the control cavity shielding, then the ground from the input jack. Most people will take their shielding grounds and go to one common lug screwed into the control cavity shielding then bring one wire from the back of the pot... But... Wouldn't it be nice if there was a ground terminal block to connect all that to, so you could eliminate all that soldering? Edited to say... DAMN! You beat me to it Axe! Edited again to say... Plus... With all going to a centralized bus, the impedance would be less across all grounds. I know.. It would be so small of a difference, but still!!!

[The Poolman]

This are some of what we use for a grounding bus in our PLC control systems, separate grounds go to the bus, then the bus itself is grounded. So once the bus is grounded to your pot, you would just run your pickup and shielding grounds to the terminal. the only soldering would be from the bus to the pot.

You have a really good idea with this.

[Cygnus X1]

I was only half-kidding about that multi terminal strip.
If just one three-point strip can be fitted it saves a lot of work.
You can get several leads just on one of those older style eyelets.

Taken from amp building of course.
I avoid soldering on pots and chassis boxes as much as possible, and
prefer common ground point(s) tied to a star.

Really an ideal situation when you are discussing several pickups and shields.
So, whatever you can come up with that will be a universal fit would help.
Nothing wrong at all with the screw strips you were thinking of.

[tomanyjacksons]

I've managed to cook at least a couple pots in the past grounding everything. This would've been a great help.

[DonP]

How about just solder 1 wired to the pot, then take this wire along with the other 6, twist together, solder, tape off with electrical tape.

Silar,

The guitar industry doesn't have quick connects because it's typically thought that once a guitar is put together, that's it - it's done. Thought wasn't given to the aftermarket pickup industry and people swapping.

[silar]

This are some of what we use for a grounding bus in our PLC control systems, separate grounds go to the bus, then the bus itself is grounded. So once the bus is grounded to your pot, you would just run your pickup and shielding grounds to the terminal. the only soldering would be from the bus to the pot.

You have a really good idea with this.

That's what I do for a living too! PLC's, RTU's, PAC's, etc.. Love it. I thought about the buss terminal bars like what you show, but they would be too long. Would need to be a modular screw terminal, or something like that.

[silar]

How about just solder 1 wired to the pot, then take this wire along with the other 6, twist together, solder, tape off with electrical tape.

Silar,

The guitar industry doesn't have quick connects because it's typically thought that once a guitar is put together, that's it - it's done. Thought wasn't given to the aftermarket pickup industry and people swapping.

I realize that, but it would be nice for all of us, even the guitar industry during manufacturing (would save them time and money), to have something like this...

[DonP]

I realize that, but it would be nice for all of us, even the guitar industry during manufacturing (would save them time and money), to have something like this...

Guitar companies are ran by accountants whose only motivation is money. Pump the company, flip it on the stock market, and cash out the options. Look at the Facebook fiasco

[sully]

You mean this? http://www.liberator.com/

Slightly different purpose!

Yep. As I mentioned.

[sully]

I realize that, but it would be nice for all of us, even the guitar industry during manufacturing (would save them time and money), to have something like this...

You build it, I'll be happy to test it in a Sully.

Sully