Megajolt DIY

[deezee]

Well I thought I'd be smart and take advantage of the strength of the pound and order my Megajolt direct from the states in a kit form. I got the TPS kit, programming cable, mounting brackets and a hard rev limiter for £80 delivered to the UK.... In 3 working days!

Its bloody hard to put it together though. I've seen bigger fleas than some of the components. But after 3 hours I'd finished it. I've dug out an old windows xp laptop from the IT cupboard at work. So I should be able to test it out with the loom and engine in the near future.

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[flyerncle]

Well done mate

Looks horrible to do !

[davidimurray]

Looks great - how hard was it to assemble? I'm currently toying with ordering the kit from the US to put together over the xmas break.

[londonsean69]

That looks like you've done a good job there.

I never did get on that well with soldering, although I did design and build my own Oxygen senser based on a quad op-amp circuit. Grabbed the wrong end of the soldering iron a couple of times though

I looked into the MegaSquirt DIY kit, but I don't have a steady enough hand to do it myself*

Any ECU I buy is going to be pre-assembled

*I have some residual nerve damage from a diving accident, at times, I get really, really shaky hands - no, it's not the drink

[RAYLEE29]

Take a look at the Trigger wheels website loads of good stuff on there Ray

[les g]

contact Ray Ward
on locostbuilders he suppliies them built and tested with cable and disc of advance curves etc about £110 he charged me ...
i cant do fiddly soldering with my sausages
cheers les g

[spud69]

Looks a good job there, well done.

I bought mine pre assembled from trigger wheels. I'm the same as Les, too fiddly for my 6'7" hands......

[Bonzo]

Looking good mate

I found it quite a relaxing way to spend an evenining

Right about one thing though, those surface mount components are tiny

Fine with the soldering once I got into the grove, never swore once.....Most unusual for me

[Tatey]

I have to say im really looking forward to getting my hands on a megajolt system to build. I seem to really enjoy soldering components together and hopefully have something working by the end of it.

[Bonzo]

Here is mine after completion

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If you were assembling them on a regular basis, probably wouldn't take much more than a hour to do

Pitty I have changed direction on my engine install & probably won.t be needed.