Lehner Motors

[Ryu James]

i have owned several Neu 1512's, 1515's, a 1527, 2215, etc. so after running only Neu i wanted to try some Hacker and Lehner motors. I bought a hacker b50 xl, a c50 xl and also picked up a huge lehner 2250 for my truggy. so i switched out my neu 1515 1y from my rc8t and put in the lehner 2250. i ran it only 5 minutes and it wasnt as fast as my neu, not as torquey, and had higher temps. i immediately took it out. i think the motor was a great motor still but i attribute the differences to it being 2 pole whereas the Neus are 4 pole motors. i dont know a lot about motors but i have heard that 4 pole have better low end grunt. not sure if this is true but my smaller neu seemed much more powerful than the lehner i tried. so now i am just waiting on a motor mount to put my hacker c50 xl 7turn in my losi 8b 2.0. it is also 2 pole and currently i have a neu 1515 1y in my buggy. everyone has been telling me that the hackers are insane fast. so i am hoping i am not disappointed. i really thought i would get more out of these german motors. with real cars i have only owned german made BMWs and Audis for years now and when it comes to real motors the germans squash american cars but so far with RC i am not convinced. i am hoping this hacker convinces me better.

but again its all prefernece. aqwut actually bought that lehner from me and that same week he bought a bunch of Neu 1527s and as he says above he likes lehners better. so maybe it is just a preference thing more than actual performance, idk?

anyway, so far my choice would be Neu if you are able to get them. and as far as getting them serviced i have been driving mine for a year now and have not had any issues. hopefully they continue to perform as they have.