Unrelated to all of the CP stuff, I have to give a huge, freakin huge shoutout to Andy at Ultimarc. As mentioned earlier in this thread, I bought a ton of stuff from Ultimarc last January and received it 11 months ago. I opened the box but didn't really inventory everything to make sure I received what I ordered. So, a couple weeks ago when I was putting all the joysticks, buttons, etc in the wood mockup I made, I went through everything in the box,. Came to find out that I was missing an I-Pac. I originally ordered 2 of them but only had 1. Needless to say, I was crushed and feared I was out $100 to get another one.
Sent Andy an email about it and told him what happened. I asked him if he would have any sales on I-Pac's coming up. I didn't need the 2nd one today so maybe I could save myself $20 or something down the line. Andy said no, it was their mistake and he sent me another I-Pac. I needed a couple more $ inserts for buttons and told him to at least let me cover the shipping and buy the inserts. Nope, in addition to the I-Pac and wiring harness, he sent the inserts and covered shipping.
If anyone reading this needs to buy hardware for a build, I wouldn't buy from anywhere else. Not many companies or people would honor this and do what he did. It was completely my fault for not checking the original shipment to make sure everything was there. Side note..... don't do what I did and let 11 months pass before checking deliveries you get!
I don't know if I'll ever build another machine in my lifetime, but he has a customer for life. I'm not sure if he's on this forum or not, but kudos to him! Happy to share this story with everyone here.