Wire up a epiphone prophecy guitar

The battery is for your active pick-ups.

Does this guitar have a esonic 2 system, if so the other pickup is piezo pickup located under the saddle, there should be two wires coming from the pre-amp just remove the pre-amp from the body and make sure that the two wires are still plugged in and attached to the pickups, these are plugs like a small headphone style plug, just check these and the wires are held in by small wire clips,one of the wires may have came out of the clips...hope this helps I will look for a schematic for you and post it if I find one...Good Luck!!!

Go to guitarelectronics.com they have wiring diagrams for your guitar there.

Go to this site and find a guitar with the same configuration of controsl, pickups, etc as yours to see typical diagram. With CAREFUL inspection and good lighting often you can see where the wire broke from.

Most likely it is wired like most Gibsons. The volume knobs are the two at the neck end, the tones are the two nearest the rear. The lower two are volume and tone for the bridge pickup, the upper two are for neck pickup. Switch down is bridge or lead pickup, switch up is for neck or rythym pickup, and centre position is both pickups one, where all knobs can be used together.

For one volume and tone pot, it would be like this

http://www.guitar-mod.com/wiring/LP_junior.gif

All the earths have to eventually terminate on the earth of the cord.

Realize that when you plug into the one jack it disconnects the fingerboard pickup from the mix.

DO NOT USE "stereo" cables as it is intended to use TWO MONO cables, one for each side of the stereo.

IF you plug into the one jack that will connect to the bridge pickup, it will disconnect the fingerboard pickup from the mix BUT leave the fingerboard on its own jack.
That same jack will have BOTH fingerboard and bridge pickups IF the second jack (bridge) is not plugged into.

This is according to the schematic. If you find that yours works backwards, then either the schematic is wrong OR your guitar pickups may be electrically swapped.

Here is a site:

http://www.gibson.com/Service/Tech/Schematics/

Look at the different versions of Les Paul and find the pone that matches the guitar. They are all near the front of the listing at the site.

The five pin switch is used on the "Ace Freely" version. IF the guitar is that one using the 5 tab switch you willl have to get the correct switch to replace it.

These switches are easily adjusted if it is just a contact problem. If the lever has been broken off they have to be replaced.

Sounds like you have some microphonic pickups. Only thing to do is replace them. This would be caused by the guitar being hit against something or being dropped.

The controls should be setup in pairs (as long as the electronics haven't been modified. The two closest to the pickups are the volumes and the other two are the tone controls. The top knob set should be your neck pickup and the bottom set is for the bridge.

Schematics and wiring diagram for the typical les paul (sheraton) controls:
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/product/WDUHH3T2202

Good luck!