Emerson sells some pretty snazzy looking prewired control kits for many different models, but in practice I've found that they're not all that incredible.
Here's the latest one I installed for a customer. (He brought the kit to me to install. If he hadn't, I would have just installed the components that I sell.)
This is the wire to the output jack, which broke off underneath the heat shrink they put over the lug on the volume pot. Was a bit of a bugger to troubleshoot because the heat shrink kept the wire in place to mostly make good contact, but if something got wiggled the right way contact would be broken. They use solid core wire in their builds. I assume that it's because it looks pretty and a very neat job can be done, but this application really needs stranded wire, at least for the leads to the output jack.
Other nits... below is the image from their page. See that bare wire they use to ground the two pots? Looks neat. But they always solder it to the side of the pots, which makes the assembly too wide to fit in most control cavities. I always move it or replace it with a stranded wire. The fat cap (also unnecessary) means that there isn't enough room to just move the ground bar to the backs of the pots.
And the soldering, though neat looking, wasn't done at a high enough temperature for the solder to flow to all the connections properly. They're working now, but ultimately at least one will fail.
$90 for this neat looking mess. (Rant over
)
Here's the latest one I installed for a customer. (He brought the kit to me to install. If he hadn't, I would have just installed the components that I sell.)
This is the wire to the output jack, which broke off underneath the heat shrink they put over the lug on the volume pot. Was a bit of a bugger to troubleshoot because the heat shrink kept the wire in place to mostly make good contact, but if something got wiggled the right way contact would be broken. They use solid core wire in their builds. I assume that it's because it looks pretty and a very neat job can be done, but this application really needs stranded wire, at least for the leads to the output jack.
Other nits... below is the image from their page. See that bare wire they use to ground the two pots? Looks neat. But they always solder it to the side of the pots, which makes the assembly too wide to fit in most control cavities. I always move it or replace it with a stranded wire. The fat cap (also unnecessary) means that there isn't enough room to just move the ground bar to the backs of the pots.
And the soldering, though neat looking, wasn't done at a high enough temperature for the solder to flow to all the connections properly. They're working now, but ultimately at least one will fail.
$90 for this neat looking mess. (Rant over
)
