The thing is, he can’t. He’s stated before that selling them at $120 was basically at cost of parts to him. So he would lose money upfront from the sale.
He’s stated he over specs his components, in an attempt to make a more robust vesc that can handle a bit more abuse.
My question is, why does he spend so much more on components than you for a vesc, if cheaper components were just as good?
At the end of the day, this issue of pins cutting into power wires is just sloppy manufacturing. I don’t doubt they are manufactured to IPC2 standard, I’ve just lost my respect for that standard. Never heard of this happening with a non-enertion vesc. Every batch, it’s always something.
Here’s a thought @onloop. Maybe sell another esc for those who need a cheap option and the vesc platinum with warranty for those who can spend a bit more?
The thing is, people buy them not understanding how likely it is to break on them. They were told by the forum they are the best speed controller (and they are), but they have been gaining a bad reputation, due to so many of them breaking. Your not the only vendor on here, yet Its rare to see a forum post about a chaka vesc being broken, or anyone else for that matter. 9/10 times, its an enertion vesc. Now you sell more, so that’s the excuse. But I would ask, if you sell 1000 vesc, how many of those vescs goes to a customer on this forum? I would be willing to bet chaka is supplying at least 1/4 of the vesc members on this forum use. if you supply half, lets say, that still doesn’t explain why 9/10 are enertion. You see, the math just doesn’t add up to explain it away as you sell more than others, thus you see more of mine breaking.
A broken vesc topic doesn’t have to be “it’s broken, what do I do?”, but “why is my vesc not working?”, which leads to figuring out the problem is it’s broken. No reason it can’t happen with a chaka vesc too. You won’t get that first case with chakas vesc really, cause they know what to do. But usually, people like to confirm something broken with the community if they don’t have a gigantic gaping hole in their vesc (and sometimes, it’s not really broken. I helped someone firgure out they had wrong settings, and not a physical problem the other day).
@Svenska Thank you for your opinions. You gave me some perspective in an area I don’t know enough about (I should know more). My only counter argument is that those kinds of open source hardware are being bought often because they are open source. They are people who know how to write software, and understand he hardware at least on a more familiar level then your average consumer. Now with the vesc, it is marketed to your average consumer. It’s been made into a consumer level product, and if you are going to turn an open source, unpredictable product into a consumer product, than you need protections in place to protect the consumer. It’s not sold to the same type of people. Which is why protections need to be in place.
