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The L2 controller is not strictly necessary for operations but does help. The main goal of an L2 is configuration of bricks attached, if you are dealing with a correctly serialized set of bricks it's not necessary.

Hi Raion,
I've been told by a few longtime members here that the L2 controller has one superpower that I should probably have.

That is that the L2 controller apparently seems to have the super power to forcibly redirect the system Console without having to figure out what serial port it might be lurking on or at least that's the impression given to me by certain members.

I just snagged one on eBay for about ultra-cheap. And I'm creating the digikey list for the DB50 connector, 48VDC (AC to DC adapter), and the internal lithium battery it requires. I'd like to hold off and open it up and check those capacitors and put those on my list as well before I finish my order. But after that I should have everything I need to get one running. 

I do enough work with Fuel and Tezro by saving myself from needing two or three simultaneous null modem cables hooked to every port imaginable to find the darn PROM text output, it would be a blessing if a single USB cable means 1 cord, L1 and Console PROM access in ONE connection...all the time.

I realize it doesn't serve much else of the purpose but I'm tired of having to figure out which port the PROM is outputting on and if someone's changed the darn baud rates on me. If one cable gets me every single text output the system will do, everytime, then that's exactly what I want.

I'm buying it specifically for this purpose and no other that I can think of.