Replacing Your 2-Button Non-LED Footswitch Box with a 2-Button Battery Powered LED Box

1. Connect your original 2-button non-LED footswitch box to your amp and stomp on the footswitches so that they are
both switched to the settings for which you would like to have LED s turned on.

2. Don t press the footswitches again and carefully open the footswitch box.

3. If you have the Marshall P802 (a.k.a. PEDL-91004), the inside should look similar to the drawing below. Use an
ohm meter to measure the electrical continuity between the switch terminals.

In this P802 example, we see two SPDT (single pole, double SPST Switching Illustration
throw) switches. Let s call them SW1 and SW2.
Pole Pole
(Ring) Throw Throw (Tip) Throw
Throw
SW1 switches the plug s ring connection so that it is either (Sleeve) (Sleeve)

closed or open with respect to the sleeve.

Closed Closed
SW2 switches the plug s tip connection so that it is either
SW1 SW2
closed or open with respect to the sleeve.

A) Measure continuity between the pole and the sleeve

Tip
throw of SW1 and make note of whether the Pole Pole
connection is open or closed. Throw
(Ring) Throw Throw (Tip) Throw
Ring (Sleeve) (Sleeve)

If it s closed, there will be electrical continuity Sleeve

between the terminals (i.e. 0 ohms). Open Open
SW1 SW2
If it s open, there will be no electrical continuity
between the terminals (i.e. greater than 20M ohms).

B) Measure continuity between the pole and the sleeve

throw of SW2 and make note of whether the
connection is open or closed.

Your switch connections will differ depending on

whether you want the LED to light up when the pole
and the sleeve connections are closed or open.
Marshall P802 (PEDL-91004)
2 button footswitch box with
no LED.

Pole Pole
(Ring) (Tip)
Sleeve
Throw Throw
(Sleeve) (Sleeve)

Tip
SW1 SW2
Ring

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Tip 4. If you use the P-H471-LED replacement footswitch box, the inside should look similar to the
drawing below. We can see that it uses two DPDT footswitches, two 1K resistors and two LED s.
Ring

5. Remove the pole jumper wires (one per switch). + +

1K 1K

Sleeve
- -
6. Check the electrical continuity between the plug s
tip, ring and sleeve sections to make sure the same
SW1 Sleeve SW2
switches will control the same amp functions as your Tip

original footswitch box. Ring

A) In the original switch, SW1 controlled the ring to sleeve connection. Connect your meter to
the ring and sleeve sections of the ¼ plug and press SW1. You should notice the switch
changing the ring to sleeve connection between open and closed each time you press SW1.

B) In the original switch, SW2 controlled the tip to sleeve connection. Connect your meter to the
tip and sleeve sections of the ¼ plug and press SW2. You should notice the switch changing
the tip to sleeve connection between open and closed each time you press SW2.

If you find that the wrong switch is

P-H471-LED controlling the ring to sleeve and tip to
sleeve connections, you can reverse
the wires connected to the pole 1
switch terminals.
Pole 1
+ + Throw
1A
Throw
1B
1K 1K
Pole 1 - -
Pole 1

Tip Throw Throw

Sleeve 2A 2B
Pole 2
Ring

Pole 2 Pole 2

SW1 SW2 7. Wire SW1 for the LED to be on

Pole Jumper Wires when the ring to sleeve connection is
open or closed by modifying the switch
connections to match the drawings
Both ON when pole to sleeve connections are OPEN. below.
+ +
1K 1K 8. Wire SW2 for the LED to be on
- -
when the tip to sleeve connection is
open or closed by modifying the switch
connections to match the drawings
Sleeve below.

Tip
Ring
SW1 SW2

Both ON when pole to sleeve connections are CLOSED.

+ +
1K 1K

- -

Sleeve

Ring
Tip

SW1 SW2
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9. Connect a 9 volt battery snap connecter like S-H155 to the SW2 terminals. The black (negative) wire should be
connected to the Throw 1A (sleeve) terminal and the red (positive) wire should be connected to the Throw 1B
terminal.

10. Use double-sided tape stuck to the back wall of the footswitch box or some other reasonable method to secure a 9
volt battery inside the box.
Tip

Ring

Sleeve

P-H471-LED Modified for Battery

Powered LED Switching

Double-sided tape on S-H155

back wall of the box.

LED on when black red

ring and sleeve
are closed LED on when
+ + tip and sleeve
are open
1K
1K
- -
Throw Throw
1A 1B

Sleeve

Ring
Tip

Each LED circuit draws about 7 mA(DC) from a 9 V battery when the LED s are on.
When not using the footswitch, make sure the LED s are turned off to preserve battery life.

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