I have a C66, from 09 (May) with an always on switch in the bridge, and I was fiddling with it today and realized something. It is not wired as I requested. My always on does not work. What it does is in position 4 and 5 (neck split, and neck full bucker) with the switch on it only gives bridge split and bridge bucker.. With the switch off I get standard 5 way switch. I don't really understand how this is happening, but testing all 4 coils with a tap gives that for results. What it should be doing is giving Bridge + 4 and 5, not overriding neck with bridge (it is kind of useless like that).
Yes I realize it took more than a year for me to realize, but I primarily use the bridge, and now that I know it is wrong I need to fix it. I am decidedly bad with circuits, but can solder well.
(click to see it larger, the bridge pickup enters closest to the switch but I am sure we all know that. the DPDT switch I mean.
What I think need to be done is the purple wire needs to be bumped over to where the neck 2 wires are (one closer to the edge) That purple wire is also soldered very poorly, it is barely holding on. Looking at this closer I have no idea what is happening there, as the purple wire comes off the place the volume pot was on, but I don't know the internal 5 way switch mechanisms. It is also on the bridge pickup side of things, I mucked that first look. No clue what that is supposed to be, it has a cross over and black neck on one side, cross over and red bridge on the other side. Purple comes out the center of the first side and catches the bridge side of the 5 way, where the tone pot links in. I don't know which wires are which, the have 4 wires, red black green white. I seem to recall these DO NOT match SD/dimarzio though. Red is hot apparently, from what I gather, no clue what green is, white is used for splitting modes.
Bonus points if you can not only get the add bridge to work but tell me how to bypass volume pot to do it (if able with this I do not want to change anything layout wise) (aka blower switch)
Any help is appreciated. I would like to get this doing what I intended. Currently it just turns the 5 way switch to a mirror off the middle.