Help! Swap Sterling pickups JP150. Wiring

[blacai]

So I am trying to switch the sterling pickups of my JP150 with some dimarzio, liquidfire, crunchy lab but it doesn't seem to be working...

The configuration is:
2 Humbuckers
1 Volumen with push/pull active volume boost
1 Tone
3 toggle pickup selector.

Before taking the pickups off I wrote down the wires of the pickups:

pos 1 toggle: green wire of neck pickup
pos 2 toggle: nothing
pos 3 toggle: red wire of bridge pickup

middle ground toggle: red+bare of neck pickup and green+bare of bridge pickup

I don't know if the sterling pickups are based on any specific vendor...but I assumed it could be dimarzio so I tried to solder the basic configuration of a 3 toggle, with hots(red wires) to the toggle 1 and 3 and green+bare to the ground.

But the pickups sound really low and lose output.

I have tried several wirings but I cannot manage to make it work.

I didn't touch the volume nor the tone, I just took off the wires of the toggle and soldered the new pickups.




Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

The SBMM wiring colors are not the same as DiMarzio (I think each factory has done the SBMM wiring with different colors).

On DiMarzio pickups wired to a standard 3-way toggle you would wire them as follows:
Red - hot from toggle
Black and white joined together
Green - ground
Silver/shield - ground

 

[blacai]

Thanks for answering!
As I wrote, each of the sterling pickups had a different wiring color schema...so I was totally confused and opted for a typical DiMarzio wiring diagram with hots(red) directly to the toggle 1 and 3 and green-shield to ground.

The problem was I forgot to join the black and white in one of the pickups, I just tapped them (bad thing about soldering at 2a.m....)

So after mounting them again and doing the basic proper soldering everything worked perfectly.