MMM Specs?

[BrianG]

I think Castle should use this whole overrating products thing in their marketing. They could provide a real-world rating, and then a rating using the methods other companies use. Yeah, it would be tongue-in-cheek.

Or, rate it using real-world specs, but also specify the number and part number of the FETs used. Most people will have no idea what it means, but the people that do will look them up and find out how good they are. After a while, ESCs built with 36 x D4RRT5 FETs will be known as the creme of the crop. (Yes, that's a fictitious part number.) Kinda like how CD players used to state how they use "Burr-Brown D/A converters". Not many know what the heck that means, but all the good stuff used them, so it must be good.

[VintageMA]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Kinda like how CD players used to state how they use "Burr-Brown D/A converters". Not many know what the heck that means, but all the good stuff used them, so it must be good.

I'm such a freakin geek (and willing to admit it ) my brain just shifted from RC to A/V and started purring thinking about the single bit burr-brown da converters.

Kinda like how when mp3s just came out the Frauhoffer (sp?) MP3 codec was supposed to be one of the best quality codec for encoding MP3s.

Sorry - just digressed big time there - but I totally agree that if you market something big "Now NEW and IMPROVED with high-tech MA987 FETs" (or whatever) people don't even know what your talking about but will just buy into the hype.

[TexasSP]

Originally Posted by VintageMA

people don't even know what your talking about but will just buy into the hype.

Kind of like in the movie Idiocracy "Its got electrolytes!" "What do they do?" "I don't know but it's what plants want"

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by VintageMA

...Sorry - just digressed big time there - but I totally agree that if you market something big "Now NEW and IMPROVED with high-tech MA987 FETs" (or whatever) people don't even know what your talking about but will just buy into the hype.

Well, that would work too, but I was thinking more along the lines of if CC specified details about the FETs used, it would become the standard by which other ESCs are judged. If the average "Joe Sixpack" saw a CC 100A ESC with 36 X MA987s, and then a no-name ESC with 18 X MA987s rated for the same 100A, Joe could assume right there that the no-name brand is not going to do as well. Not so much an absolute knowledge of the device specs, but the relative differences between ESCs.