So, I don't play electric guitar, never seen a guitar, etc. Here's the thing, I figure that if I am going to build a guitar, I might as well overdo it on the electronics sides of things. The problem is, I don't have any knowledge about this outside of general physics.
So pickups are essentially electromagnetic inductors, and we want the electrons to travel to ground, and have conventional current flowing into the circuit, right? How do we know which is which? I think I have deduced this from the presoldered wires from the factory - which I believe is operating in series (diagram below). This would mean that in my case RED is the hot wire, GREEN is the ground wire and White (represented as BLUE) is the direction of electron flow, right?
So basically, I want to do my own control plate now that I am changing hardware colour, cap and pot values to get in line with manufacturer specs(I'll source the materials later). In this I want, in addition to the regular selection of pickups (bridge, neck, both), the ability to swap between Top, Parallel, Series and Bottom in the bridge pickup. For this I have used a rotary switch because I can't find a suitable switch that is less than $30 that isn't rotary.
So basically here's the diagram I have come up with. I have no idea what I am doing, and no idea where it comes into the guitar circuit relative to the other selector (as I haven't worked that out yet).
How did I do? Are there any electrical options I have missed, besides phase which I have no idea how to do for this (though I guess I just reverse how the two connect)?
I don't even know if I have the right idea about how rotary switches work
If we define the coils as N and S and the Red as + and the Blue as - they are;
P1 = N+ to output, S+ to Ground, N- to Ground (Do I need to worry about S- here? Should I be grounding it?) = Top only?
P2 = N+ to output, S+ to N+, N- to ground (Do I need to worry about S- here?) = Parallel?
P3 = N+ to output, S+ to N-, S- to Ground = Series?
P4 = S+ to output, S+ is S+, S- Is ground = Bottom only?
The other thing I am concerned about is volume/tone loss because of the multiple paths of the wires. The loss should be minimal/non-existent when only one of the paths is a closed circuit, right?
What would be the best way to get the wires going around like this with minimum spaghetti?
Thanks m80s