Ok so I have been working on this project and I think it solves a lot of problems and gives you lots of options. BUT now tariffs have set in and I do not see anyway to offer this to others at a good price.
This is a plug in to the masso MPG port that allows you to run with a 5volt or 24 volt mpg without removing the housing and gives you a better ground and five other functions if you go with a custom MPG vs just the 24volt masso. The 24volt masso mpg also works with this right out of the box. The mounting hole also lines up with the masso stand-off so you would just plug in the board to masso’s mpg port and mount the one screw. The only jumper is to select a 24volt mpg or a 5volt mpg.. and BAM Clean… How many should I make after the tariffs go away? I have 6 in stock
Its a universal mpg adaptor interface for the masso, Allows you to select any mpg on the market 5volt or 24volt and connect it cleanly to the masso 15 pin connector without removing any connector housing.. It also has a better ground connection and provides the user to trigger 5 other functions if you convert your mpg with other push buttons and convert you 15 pin mpg to a 25pin, like I did with my mpg pro design in the photo above
Hmm…very nice and clean. I’m impressed. I’d buy one, but for the life of me I can’t think of what other functions the pendant would need to do. What other functions do you have it set up to do on your machine?
This looks great. Is this required for the MPG you’re developing? Any update for your MPG? I am looking to buy one asap but i like the form factor and functionality of yours.
wait…what? You’re developing an mpg? Do tell! I have the typical Masso unit, it’s not only useful, but essential. However, it was designed by a chimp with adhd. All the other ones I find out there are not compatible with Masso. Show us what you’ve got!
In most aspects I also agree with you. You should not even have had to open the Masso controller to add an MPG, They could have done exactly the same thing with the DB-15 connector that they did with the USB, add a simple extension cable and have it connect to the outside of the enclosure.
Yea, it does grind my gears a bit that they haven’t addressed this (afaik). Design oversights are just a thing that happens, but at some point, a grown adult human noticed that it would be a problem. Then, another higher ranking grown adult human made the decision to proceed anyway. It’s really small potatoes, and has an easy solution. It’s really the disregard that pisses me off. A company with an ounce of integrity would at the very least offer an adapter for free. Then they would make the necessary change to the housing or move the port. But this is the world we live in now. And it’s just much less stressful to work around shoddy engineering and corporate greed, than it is to expect anyone is going to give a flying @$% about anything.
Look at me, preaching about integrity on the 1F forum How utterly ironic.
Well with all the prices going up across the board, PWNCNC is now selling the Masso MPG for $200 when last week it was $160. What do you want for your Mpg Pro Adapter Board?
So I got 10 ready before the tariffs and was planning on selling just the adapter board for $50.00 plus shipping but now with tariffs my board vendor is adding like $35.00/board and I will not pay that…No not going to do that. So need to wait and see
Try pricing with Tarrifs included. Don’t order or build any. Advertise a lead time that allows you to build it , much like 1F, and if people want one under those conditions then everyone is happy.
Same as the 3 button “easy button” setup from Dash woodworks. The masso lets you map a big list of functions to them. I want one that sends it to the parking spot. You can also set it to run a certain gcode, or go to home, turn dust collector on/off. Anything you find yourself doing over and over that would be quicker with s dedicated button vs touchscreen menus.
Have you checked to see if there is an on shore board supplier who could price it closer to that with the tariff consideration? I mean that is supposed to be the idea behind a tariff, motivate you to buy domestic vs import.
But I haven’t ever looked into it so not sure if the prices are comparable even with
a tariff on top. U-fab.co looks like they do their work in St Louis
I’m right there with you in being all in at $50, but the $35 on top is a no.
I didn’t want to wait it out, I’d rather spend $85 on something made here than the same money for the same item and a boat ride.
The problem with electronics is that all the parts are imported. The tariffs on parts is lower but still an added tax. The labor here is much higher (10X in most cases) so if you’re labor intensive to pick & place on the boards and drive the soldering machine that’s a big cost as well.
Then the local supplier has to look at the competition. If imports are now costing an extra 70%, then they can (& usually do) charge an extra 60% knowing the alternative for the buyer is more expensive. But, even that extra 60% may not be enough because of the increased cost to make it here so they may have to charge even more than the tariff laden import alternative.
This happened to my small shop (metal fab for motorcycles & small stock car racing) the last time when it was just aluminum & steel. US based suppliers jacked prices to just below import prices. I couldn’t fault them for it because there isn’t enough domestic production to remotely meet the demand (like a factor of 4) and they’d be stupid to sell what they do have for anything less than the market will bear.
We just stopped doing any new manufacturing and hunkered down just doing repairs until things settled down. That was okay for me because it’s a sideline, but if I were relying on it for full-time earnings I’d have closed down and done something else. This time 100% of my materials are affected even down to the welding rods we use. We’re no longer quoting new work - I have no idea how much materials will cost (or if they’ll be available) so once we’ve worked through our backlog this summer we’ll be scaling back down again.
The suppliers didn’t bring back a ton of manufacturing to make up the supply deficit last time because it takes a really long time to build ore processing & smelting operations and no one wants them in their town anyway so almost all of that is done overseas. If these tariffs stay in place they’re likely to kill a lot of small businesses. No one is going to pay me $2K for a new fuel tank even if it is made in the US, they’re simply not going to buy it, they’ll go used or stop riding or racing because it’s too expensive.
Ah, I see. I wasn’t understanding what other functions you could include on a pendant. I have all my shortcut buttons on a diy panel anyway. Definitely wouldn’t want them on the pendant but thanks for clarifying. I was hoping all this mpg talk would lead me to a more ergo-friendly unit. But all the ones I’ve seen are made for ham-fisters.
Once the Tarriff’s settle down I’d sure be interested in one. And it sounds like they may soon be dropping to 80% from the 145. Still too high, but an improvement.
How utterly ironic.