Minleon Deal for our members

[loveroflife96]

Typically in an LE Coop, you can pick the board and BOM up for around $70 at most.  Case is around $15, plus the cost of shipping plus the cost of the cords to attach to the LE.  The shipping and cords negate themselves since Minleon would charge for shipping and you still provide your own cords.  So DIY = ~$85 vx. Minleon at $159.  Course, you also have the fun of soldering and possibly  making mistakes with the DIY route, but that's half the fun of this hobby for me!  Hope that helps!

Duane

[poolprousa]

Typically in an LE Coop, you can pick the board and BOM up for around $70 at most.  Case is around $15, plus the cost of shipping plus the cost of the cords to attach to the LE.  The shipping and cords negate themselves since Minleon would charge for shipping and you still provide your own cords.  So DIY = ~$85 vx. Minleon at $159.  Course, you also have the fun of soldering and possibly  making mistakes with the DIY route, but that's half the fun of this hobby for me!  Hope that helps!

Duane

Thanks, it does.  Because of the tremors in my right hand/arm, I am now 99% left-handed, so not too sure about solderiing critical components...sure wish I could!

[maffeirw]

It looks like Minleon has the Express prebuilt board (no case or leads) on sale for $109.  Might be an excellent buy, especially if you are thinking that you might need a controller in any type of public/commercial display or you just don't feel like building one yourself.
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[maffeirw]

And another drop to $99 at this rate they may end up cheaper than the coop (just kidding) 

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[MSL]

The $99.00 gets you the assembled board and 16 pigtails. Case is 25.00. You can have a commercial controller for with the case and pigtails for $143.62 shipped (shipping was $19.62).

The shipping seems a little high when you first look at it but if you figure what shipping is on the coops, what you pay to get the cases shipped and, if you buy the pigtails shipped, it is about what you are paying them to drop ship it to you.

Unfortunately for them I like to (and still am able too) build my own equipment.

For someone looking for a mostly assembled controller it looks like a deal.

MSL

[arw01]

I really, really looked at doing that too.  But in the end I figured I could get 3 le's for the price of two if I soldered them myself and I like several here, enjoy building them as much as using them.

Alan

[poolprousa]

I just popped on 2 of them...my first equipment purchase! (dear God, what am I getting myself into!) 

Shipping on 2 w/pigtails was $40 

[MrChristmas2000]

I just popped on 2 of them...my first equipment purchase! (dear God, what am I getting myself into!) 

Shipping on 2 w/pigtails was $40 

One of the most addictive hobbies in the world. LOL 

[ron d]

Still including free pigtails with controllers at $99 built and tested!