How much would a DIY Electronic Kit be worth?

I'm thinking of building an electronic kit from an acoustic drumset. However, if I don't end up using it enough, would I be able to make back what I put into it by selling it, or would I pretty much just be stuck with it?

I'd be setting it up with either an Alesis Trigger I/O or one of the cheaper Roland modules.

Can anyone give me some advice?

Getting your money back can be the tricky part. It mainly depends on quality of the conversion and how much you have invested. I have done a few conversions for myself and sold them with a profit to fund the next project, but I also work for Pintech with a long list of artists that I work with. I have also done a couple that I was lucky to break even!

Many people will want a commercially available kit due to warranty issues. DIY is kind of a love for the project, not so much as a chance to make or lose money.

I want to do it for the project itself and to give E-kits a try. However, it's a lot of money to put out for something that I'm not quite sure about.

The conversion would be well done, as I'll use it for myself for a while, if not forever. I just want to make sure that if I don't really like it and use my acoustic kit more that I'm not just throwing money away.

Anyone else have advice for this?

when i converted mine, I made sure that the drums could be returned to acoustic if necessary. I can put the acoustic heads back on the drums and sell the kit for whatever a used kit would get and then sell the trigger system seperately.........or try to sell the entire kit if I could get enough for it.

heres an idea. get a kit with either ISS mounts or drilled mounts that will accept the 7/8" pearl style arms. put acoustic heads on one side and triggered mesh heads on the other. all you would have to do to switch back and forth between electric and acoustic is spin the drums around and adjust the height. for the bass drum you would just keep the acoustic heads on it, use your pedal to play it acoustically and use an electric pedal hooked into the brain to play electrically. if you play double, just use two electric pedals hooked into the same input on the brain using a splitter. this could also come in handy to play the bass drum acoustically and use the electric pedal beside it set to random percussion effects [cowbell, tambourine, etc.]

this way, if you wanted to sell it, you could sell it all together, sell the acoustic kit and keep the triggers and such in case you wanna trigger a different acoustic kit for recording, or sell the acoustic kit by itself and sell the electronics as a conversion kit. theres plenty of ways to make your money back.