best bet for DIY-EFI setup, SOONer than Later

[Bruce Bowling]

Marc,

As I have indicated in the past on the Yahoo MegaSquirt list, more than 
once, is that our immediate focus is to ship out roughly 500 kits to those 
who have paid us in the first group purchase. We still have about another 4 
- 5 weeks to finish up the group purchase - this is our primary focus, 
everything else is secondary, including sorting thru our 200+ emails a day. 
In addition, several people have the MS system installed+running, and are 
tuning it right now, and we are putting focus on them to make sure they get 
up and running and give feedback on problems, etc.- people running cars is 
the most important thing!  If there are problems with the current hardware, 
we want to know this, so that we can correct it on the next board release 
(so far, other than a few mods, everything looks good). There are already a 
few changes that are going into the new revision of the board (relocate the 
MAP sensor, bring out MAP signal to connector, etc) which are going into 
the current PCB layout. The layout is in a state of flux, hence the gerbers 
are not available right this second in time.

Now, those who are interested in the next group purchase (to start up after 
we have shipped out the first GB, right around the middle of April) there 
is a web link signup (only for us to email you info - you are not 
committing to the group purchase) at 
http://www.bgsoflex.com/registernext.html This GB will use the revised 
megasquirt PCB. In addition, we are going to allow people to just purchase 
the PCB, because many people from the first group purchase have already 
purchased the parts and they only want the revised PCB. We will also sell 
the whole kit of parts like on the first GB, and we are looking to having 
the front/rear panel laser cut to make the kit assembly much easier. Plus, 
this combined quantity of PCBs only and the kits added together will drive 
the PCB cost even lower.

To repeat: our main focus is sending out the remaining kits from the first 
group buy, and to assist those who are hooking up their hardware to engines 
and running/tuning them. When we finish shipping out the first GB, then we 
will start the second.

- Bruce

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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:33:52 -0600
>From: Marc Reviel <marc at powerlogix.com>
>Subject: RE: best bet for DIY-EFI setup, SOONer than Later
>
> >
> >Subscribe to the group and keep an eye out. one of the members was going to
> >do group buy of circuit boards in the near future costing about $5.00 each.
> >there is a poll running at the moment to determine interest for the circuit
> >board group buy so be sure to register your interest there.
> >Regards.
> >Paul.
>
>
>  I asked (posted on the Yahoo group) twice over a week ago to get the
>gerber files from Al/Bruce, but it hasn't happened. Considering many
>other people have had their questions answered by them, it's pretty clear
>my request has been ignored.  I have 70 pcb orders accumulated from
>people that wanted just the PCB's, but I can't do anything until I get
>the files from them.  (Funny thing is that I could have already gotten
>the PCB manufactured by now had the files been available.)
>  It seems rather silly for me to have to pay someone to (re)create these
>files when it's just a simple email or posting.  If I have to go that
>route, I will have to add this significant additional cost to the proce
>of the PCB's - it will probably double or triple the cost to $10-15
>depending on the final number of orders from everyone.
>
>
>
>Marc Reviel
>PowerLogix, http://powerlogix.com, co-owner/CTO
>Forced-Air Systems of Texas, http://www.f-a-s-tonline.com, co-owner
>------------------------------

- Bruce

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              Bruce A. Bowling
          bbowling at earthlink.net
    http://home.earthlink.net/~bbowling
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