Help me replace a non-true bypass switch with 3pdt!

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Help me replace a non-true bypass switch with 3pdt!

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Noob help please!!! I have a few pedals (Non BosS) that i would like to install True bypass switches in and a couple need LED's too. I do have the parts please help with links,advice,caveats, and jokes :idk: one is a range master clone, one is a DIY mods trem kit. No LeD no T. BYpasS.
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This is the way I've always wired, it's worked fine with me. Center green wire goes to LED with a 3k resistor:

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if you follow that picture from skull, the original wires from the jacks will become the blue and yellow. I like to think of input as a send. output as a return. so BLUE is your old input, new send. yellow is your return. this example has a grounded send to keep the pedal quiet when not in use. devi uses grounded output so it even keeps the radio noise muted. depends on your needs.
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Re: Help me replace a non-true bypass switch with 3pdt!

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skullservant wrote:This is the way I've always wired, it's worked fine with me. Center green wire goes to LED with a 3k resistor:

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^this, you can also put the 3k resistor instead of the green wire going to the middle lug (maybe use shrinkwrap). That makes it easier wiring the LED. :joy:
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Thanx a million : :thumb: :hug:
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