New Controllers? How many old controllers left? Macro, legacy, prices, what to buy?
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Sgt Jax Mehoff
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180-200 is probably the amount they have left now.
Hi, i just joined the forums. I really REALLY want a macro controller like you are selling. I cant find any information about full macro controllers on the internet, short of an arduino box. Do you think you will still have at least one come February? I don't think i will have the money before then. i would prefer just a plain black one, but if the installation is mostly in the PCB and can be removed from the shell (i bet the switches are hot glued, those are easy enough to replace) then i could just move it into the shell of my choice.
I just had a bad experience with evilcontrollers, and this is exactly what i wanted in a controller.
I just had a bad experience with evilcontrollers, and this is exactly what i wanted in a controller.
I can understand ramping up the price because of rarity, but it sounds like these controllers will be nigh unobtainable by that time because of the price. But still, are the only connections to the shell itself the switches?
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There are 12 wires from the modchip to the shell. (Two wires for each tac switch, mulitply by six tac switches, is 12 wires). There's also two wires from the modchip around to the flex circuit board, which is for the rainbow LED's. There are a few extra jumpers from the modchip to the circuit board. Then the modchip itself is a solderless clip that sits on the circuit board's main CPU. You have to be gentle enough not to knock the modchip/solderless clip off of the CPU.
This almost is always what happens when someone opens the controller - they just yank the two shell halves apart, rip the modchip off the CPU and damage the whole works the second they open the controller. If you absolutely have to open one, just crack it open barely enough to get a soldering iron inside to disconnect the wires from the tac switches. Mark the wires in pairs so you know which wires go to which tac switch. Never tug or jerk on the wires because remember one end is connected to the modchip/solderless clip and you don't want it to unseat from the CPU.
All voids your warranty! Chris (Fredrow) is authorized to do Viking work, he's the only other guy outside of Viking in-house staff that's done a macro install, these things are indeed a headache to work on. My employees are truly talented when they put one of these together. Two employees work in tandem for over an hour to get one of these macro controllers put together, even though it's a solderless clip.
All that just makes me super curious about the whole thing. I will really want to open it up after I get it haha. I would want to put in some black buttons instead of the stock ones, unless you guys have some there that you could put in before sending it out. In any case, it sounds crazy interesting. Do you guys have degrees in this stuff or is it just hobby that led here?
Sgt Jax Mehoff
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They don't do customization... Contact Fredrow for that.
We will be doing customizations on our non-macro controllers.
But not on the macros :-( The macros were all assembled two months back back in August. We don't want to open them again to do customizations since it took so long to put them together in the first place.
But not on the macros :-( The macros were all assembled two months back back in August. We don't want to open them again to do customizations since it took so long to put them together in the first place.
MJ23KB24
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Be patient it will be out soon enough I know Odin has the chips and everything all he has to do is start mass producing them. Give it a week or two and you will see them go on sale.
Heard this befor lol. Was told 2weeks after MW3. So there going to be out next year then? LOL
MJ23KB24
ModdingBros Leader
They should be out by christmas but no guarantees. Im sure hes working as hard as he can to get these ready for ordering. The reason it was a week or two before was because he expected the chips to come in earlier. Now he has the chips and is working to get them on the shelves.
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