Blackened_led

Googling the wilkinson HBs I found this: Thin Black = Live, Thick black/ Silver = Ground, Red & white = Coil Tap (Joined for normal operation). IF you do it like described and still get a lod buzz, the problem might be elsewere. Do you have a multi meter with resistance measuring? If so, start measuring. Whats the resistance between the covers/base plate of the pickups and the bridge and between pickups and sleve at the output jack?

Damn! you are right!!! I googled it and saw a thousand times the picture, but never searched with "thin" or "thick"

Nothing more to say ... the cables are joined backwards like Samba said before ...

I'll invert the cables. And then, try to resolve the "no sound" problem I mentioned ... I don't know why the pickups don't have a diagram (EMG ie. do have)

Thanks a lot to all of you!

The first thing to check is the thick wire. Are you sure this isn't two wires in a single sleeve, maybe a "hot" wire and a screen? I believe the Wilkinson pickups in you picture may have two wires from the pickup coils and a ground wire from the cover. If this is the case, you need to strip the sleeve of the thick wire back a bit so you can separate the two wires.

This is a more accurate picture showing the cables. Notice that the thin cable is slightly blue, in my case, its completely black like the other ...

do you mean popping when you touch the pickups? Do you have a bridge ground?

Yes, the bridge is grounded. The sound is like a high frequency white noise, specialy using distortion

is the jack wired backwards ?

are the pickups wired backwards ?

one of these things must be it, if backwards the shielded casing on the pickups will be hot which can make this noise.

Thanks for the answer

Well, there is a point right there. Because the hot and the ground cables from the pickups are the same color!! the only difference is the gauge...

First, I used the thinest cables to the volume pot ground, but no sound came out. Then I inverted the cables and used the thickest ones, and then, started the sound, but with this problem...

Maybe the cables should be at the first position and the sound problem is another ... I should post a photo of them ...

Wich of the cables should be the hot? the thinest or the thickest?

Hello everyone, I have a couple of Wilkinson WVC N like this ones

I installed them on a explorer that I built. The problem is that when I touch the mics with my fingers, they make an ugly noise ... sounds like a grounding problem, but I don't know why, because I grounded them with the volume pot (and with the jack of course) ...

Any idea?

Thanks!!