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Switch help please

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RkphilpotRkphilpot Frets: 118
edited July 2023 in Making & Modding
Hi all, electrical help please?!

The coil tap switch on my strat has perished. I need to replace it.

It's the Japanese green one in the pics below.
It says on it 
3A 125VAC
1A 250VAC

All the replacements I can find say 
3A 250VAC
5A 125VAC

What does this mean? Will it make a difference?

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  • SporkySporky Frets: 23802
    edited July 2023
    The VAC is the maximum voltage they can handle.

    Guitar pickups typically put out about 1VAC tops (with apologies for such a generalisation) so you'll have plenty of headroom. 
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  • RkphilpotRkphilpot Frets: 118
    Thank you 
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 13312
    One word of caution. Some MIJ DP3T switches have their inner contacts operating the opposite way around to US/UK C&K versions. 

    This can mess up the middle position of an on/on/on switch selecting stud/series/screw. (Lace Dually pickups are sometimes wired this way.)
    Be seeing you.
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