Rail Pickups very quiet (low output)

[mcsilvio]

Hi all,
I am new to guitar wiring but not soldering.

I bought this rail pickup for the neck and middle pickup of my strat copy.

http://store.guitarfetish.com/nenemaourhon1.html

i just wired them and they worked but are quiet. noise is at a low level. but the output is quiet! significantly less than the single coils.

now these rails have a metal thing of posts so it looks like a single coil pickup. and i accidentally ripped those off. long story. and i could see that a tiny tiny wire that ran between the coils WAS connected to it but now severed. looks like a coil wire actually. ALSO there was one lead (of four) coming out from the coils wrapping. this severed and i reconnected it using thicker gauge wire. then i put the whole thing back together and that when i found that the pickups work fine but sound very quiet.

my question is, is it possible that by one of my errors i have made them perform quietly? or is it a matter of "if they work then they work"
because the original single coil at the bridge is MUCH louder.

thanks,
marco.

[Enzo]

I surely do not know, my gut tells me you might have broken a winding wire leaving part of the pickup idle.

Welcome to the forum Marco. May I suggest you post this down in the "Instrumentation" section. That is where they discuss pickups and such.