It does look pretty time consuming to build those. I bought one 8 months ago and finally fired it up the other day. Works great, good work man!
I ripped a bunch of ATX power supplies out of junk PCs, but I can't seem to find a nice form factor. Any recommendations? I'd prefer not to buy one, but I'm not finding what I want. I'd like to build this into a case of some sort and have it all self contained.
Totally understandable on the burn out. I hope I'm not out of line for suggesting this. Perhaps you can offer a kit with PCB and all the parts that is needed? The user can then assemble it together themselves. I tallied up the price of all the parts that is needed via the BOM list and it was over $200 including the PCB before any shipping.I have to admit, I am having some burnout on building Parsec superguns by hand. In the last 2 years I have built over 100 of them.
I will be building one last batch of 6 available late December / early January. Then I need to take a break for a while, then look at my options for building larger quantities and possibly another redesign.
I will continue to offer the bare PCBs with parts list for the v2.2 Parsec.
This is an amazing and generous thing that you do!It's been a long time since my latest update.
I have decided I will not be building or selling any Parsec superguns anymore. I am finding myself too busy with other projects like the NESessity NES motherboard replacement.
I am willing to share the PCB design files and other documentation with anyone interested. I don't have gerber files; the PCB files are in .pad2pad format that requires the free CAD software from www.pad2pad.com
There still seems to be much demand for the Parsec, and I don't want my work up until now to go to waste. Now anyone can make their own Parsec superguns and even make improvements if they want to put the work into it.
Awesome! I love the Parsec, and have built two of them from PCBs I bought from you. It's too bad that the free CAD program can't export the board files to gerbers or any other usable format, because it locks you in to using that particular board house, and they are expensive, with a minimum quantity of 50 boards @ $10 each.
Halfsies?