I have been corresponding with a old fellow named John Gerling about the X3 motor controller. He must be really old as he says he is older than me! \ud83d\ude42 He is retired ( I am not)\u00a0so I guess he does have the age credentials.<\/p>\n
I found a link to him in the Little Machine Shop<\/a>\u00a0web site. Chris Wood, the owner of LMS, has a suggestion posted on the page where he sells the\u00a0Sieg replacement board I need, to check John\u00a0out if you have a Sieg controller board that needs serviced.<\/p>\n John is a retired electrical engineer who now\u00a0has a small business\u00a0repairing said controller boards. A recommendation from Chris is good enough for me, so I have been emailing John several times. John seems like a fair enough guy, a great repair flat rate (if repairable) and an\u00a0otherwise good first choice if you have a bad board. Here is his website: http:\/\/www.www.repaircontrol.com<\/a>. He calls himself Gerling Laboratories but the URL is a bit different. (Yes, two WWW’s?)<\/p>\n John, Chris\u00a0and I all decided in my case that two burned through traces from lighting is not a good thing as certainly most other parts are affected (no more magic smoke left), so I have ordered a full replacement board from LMS.<\/p>\n John is also an active hobby machinist and has produced a very well done instruction manual for building an all brass cannon from raw stock. He gave me permission to publish the link to the manual. So it is free to you to download.\u00a0He intended to publish the instruction manual as a part of a kit\u00a0for a profit. I assume to invest in more tools for his retirement center. \u00a0http:\/\/www.cannon.repaircontrol.com<\/a><\/p>\n If you like his work and his manual, let him know. If you build the cannon, you might be inclined to order the kit of materials as a thank you. Tell him Dan’l sent you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been corresponding with a old fellow named John Gerling about the X3 motor controller. He must be really old as he says he is older than me! \ud83d\ude42 He is retired ( I am not)\u00a0so I guess he does have the age credentials. I found a link to him in the Little Machine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,24],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-hobby","tag-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}