How difficult is it to assemble a MegaSquirt myself?
It takes most people new to electronics assembly 6-10 hours for their first time assembly of a PCBv3 ECU, a bit less for a PCB2.2, and the stimulator (which you should do first) is very simple and takes maybe an hour to assemble for a first-timer. I’d recommend going to www.google.com and querying for ‘Soldering Technique’ and reading up a bit, and maybe pickup up a cheapo practice kit if you want to practice your technique a bit before starting in on the MegaSquirt. I do highly recommend you build your own at least the first time around as it will familiarize you with the hardware particularly if mods are going to be required for your implementation. This way it’s not all new to you when you get to the mods which in some cases aren’t laid out quite as step by step as the main assembly.
It takes most people new to electronics assembly 6-10 hours for their first time assembly of a PCBv3 ECU, a bit less for a PCB2.2, and the stimulator (which you should do first) is very simple and takes maybe an hour to assemble for a first-timer. I’d recommend going to www.google.com and querying for ‘Soldering Technique’ and reading up a bit, and maybe pickup up a cheapo practice kit if you want to practice your technique a bit before starting in on the MegaSquirt. Check out Youtube for some good solder technique videos like this one. We do often recommend you build your own MegaSquirt at least the first time around as it will familiarize you with the hardware particularly if mods are going to be required for your implementation. This way it’s not all new to you when you get to the mods needed for your setup. Note we also offer all of our systems fully assembled if you’d prefer to skip the assembly phase.
