strat wiring problem

[monterosso]

right now i am trying to put together strat pickguard with two dimarzios and kinman pickup in it, i soldered it together studying various wiring diagrams i found n the internet, however sth is wrong, 2nd position - neck+middle dont work good, the signal is half strong, is that i need special kind of dimarzio in the middle postition? should it be reverse wound or what? the other issue is that bridge pickup does not work with tone control at all, it acts like its bypassed, huh, dont have idea why is it so? here are pics maybe someone could check it out and help me?

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http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p305/monterosso/DSCN4361.jpg

[ckofahl]

I put kinmans in a g&L tele that I had and in an email I believe I was told that the kinmans are a special type of pickup that doesn't play well with others, only kinmans. I could be wrong, but I'll see if I can dig up the email and confirm that. BTW, I really dug the kinmans, they work well in environments where you can get 60hz from you pickups. Very quiet.

[monterosso]

well, i have kinman in neck position and this works just fine, the problem is when in second position kinman and dimarzio come together - as i said signal is half lower.

[tom]

if what you're hearing is thin a nasal sounding when both are on, one is out of phase. if you reverse the hot and ground on the offender it will be fine. you really need to get those solder connections hotter so the solder can flow. many of the connections look no so good.
if you move the white wire going to the bottom tone control over to the next empty terminal on the 5 way it will function as a bridge pu tone control. then put a jumper between where the yellow wire goes and where the white wire was. then the middle knob will be tone for the neck and middle.

[monterosso]

thanks for helping me out with this ,i already changed connections on the switch.. i didnt get the part with reversing 'hot and ground wire on the offender' my english is not that good :( You ment reversing wires where? :D

[tom]

first you have to figure out which pickup is out of phase with the other two. you said the neck/middle combination is weak. if middle/bridge is ok, then the neck pickup is the problem. find the hot and ground wires from that pickup and reverse them.

[monterosso]

Big thanks TOM! i made all the improvements you advised me to do and it works just great!