new traxxas motor

[Dafni]

Originally Posted by skellyo

Plastic gears?

What plastic gears?

That is a very nice tranny! The crawler guys will love it!
I'm still not too crazy about the motor mounted on plastic.

[Finnster]

Skellyo, I'm not quite sure what you are getting at, but you seem to be misreading my posts.

The Novak comment was bc that motor looks just like a Velocity series motor, from the solder tabs to case design to other features. IE, it seems they are the supplier of the Novak motors built to Novak's spec. Not the other way around. Novak doesn't manufacture motors themselves that I know off, so would subcontract it out, and it looks to be GM based on your link. I always thought the velocity motors were high quality, just the ESC I was not a fan of and sold it off.

Castle does not manu their motors either, that's why you see them talking about searching for diff motors that can meet their spec. They even talked to Neu at some point, but abandoned the idea due to cost.

Otherwise, I didn't suggest this for MTs. Quite the contrary. However I was saying, if it was announced that someone would be releasing a 200A BL car ESC this week (first manstream ever produced!), what would have been the Vegas odds that it was TRX? No one saw this one coming...

Overall its a great development for the elec hobby and will only push BL more mainstream and force more competitive and capable controllers. Yeah for everyone.

[NovakTwo]

Originally Posted by Finnster

....The Novak comment was bc that motor looks just like a Velocity series motor, from the solder tabs to case design to other features. IE, it seems they are the supplier of the Novak motors built to Novak's spec. Not the other way around. Novak doesn't manufacture motors themselves that I know off, so would subcontract it out...

Actually, every brushless motor sold by Novak has been designed and built here in sunny California.

[skellyo]

Originally Posted by NovakTwo

Actually, every brushless motor sold by Novak has been designed and built here in sunny California.

Welcome to the forum! Now I think we almost have a full collection of representatives from the major BL manufacturers on this forum.

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by NovakTwo

Actually, every brushless motor sold by Novak has been designed and built here in sunny California.

Well I swear the design has been cloned! Imitation is the best complement maybe? Tho I bet there is more to the story.:005:

[NovakTwo]

Originally Posted by Finnster

Well I swear the design has been cloned! Imitation is the best complement maybe? Tho I bet there is more to the story.:005:

The term that I would probably use is "knock-off"... :026:

Thanks for the welcome.

[What's_nitro?]

Hey - Traxxas...Brushless...70mph...RTR...sounds good to me!

Too bad my Rustler would still whoop them. :027:

[silentbob343]

Originally Posted by NovakTwo

Actually, every brushless motor sold by Novak has been designed and built here in sunny California.

NovakTwo, good to see you here.