Beware of knock off's of Castle Motors

[Unsullied_Spy]

Originally Posted by pinkpanda3310

Worth it?! If you buy at the right time (during a sale) castle is not expensive at all.

That's true, but who knows when a sale will come along? I got my last 1717 for $70 and have yet to see a sale like that since. They do a good sale for black friday, but aside from that you just have to watch out for a sale. Usually I need a motor faster than "well a sale will come around eventually."

[Bernie Wolfard]

It is actually hard for us to have a sale because of our contracts with our distributors. Of course we can undercut us but we would not survive without the distributors large orders, there is no money in selling one or two at a time. We simply could not afford to sell 35,000 systems a month. We are a manufacturer not a retailer. Our effort goes into designing and building the most innovative best quality product possible, we let others take care of their actual sales.

Isn't it interesting that as soon as we started making our 2 pole magnet, slotless stator motor design in China suddenly every Chinese company started building and selling them?

As soon as we start making 4 pole magnet, 12 pole slotless stator motors in china every Chinese motor company started selling these.

The owner of a Chinese company was joking about how all he had to do was copy our can, just the outside of our motors, and people would assume they were the same. He also said that of course he couldn't use the same materials or build quality because then his motors would be as or more expensive as ours. Experience building high quality products is worth quite a bit and cannot be bought. Ask BMW.

The more sophisticated a motor is, say 4 pole magnet, 12 pole slotted stator motor compared to a 2 pole slotless, the more important build quality such as consistent air-gap, magnet placement, winding neatness, bearing carrier accuracy and etc is to the efficiency of the motor. This the same for material quality such as magnet gauss and heat resistance, copper purity and coating, stator plate thickness and electrical resistance, bearing quality etc etc. A sloppy 4 pole magnet, 12 pole slotted motor is much worst compared to a good one than a sloppy 2 pole magnet slotless stator motor.

I have always joked that I could make a working motor from junk car parts. However, I could not build a efficient motor that won't burn itself up with the slightest load, even if I wanted to. I couldn't get the parts.

One of the things that makes Castle such a good place to work is that we can justifiably be proud of our inventiveness and the resulting products and how we take care of our customers. It really is true that if Americans set their mind to it we can really make the best products in the world!

Bernie

[A RC Dude]

Originally Posted by Bernie Wolfard

One of the things that makes Castle such a good place to work is that we can justifiably be proud of our inventiveness and the resulting products and how we take care of our customers. It really is true that if Americans set their mind to it we can really make the best products in the world!

Bernie

Amen to that, it's crazy just how many inventions are born in America, then go overseas.