Hexfly introduce new ESC range

Re-badged Hobbywing ???

 

J

32 minutes ago, yoodoo said:

Re-badged Hobbywing ???

 

J

 

What isn't these days!!!!......team orion, reedy, exceed, sky rc, Turnigy, FlightPower, OEM, Dualsky, Emax, Guawi, Align, Toro, compass and more are all made by H.W

 

Cé LA víe

 

Redcat is the distributor, that's all I know

Edited January 5, 2018 by Fly In My Soup

I didn't know there was that many ! 

 

J

What’s cheaper these or the original Hobbywing ? 

Roughly similar in price....just rebranded and redistributed

And to think, 10 or so years ago,People all over this forum were scoffing at the mere mention of Hobbywing , Cheap Chinese ripoff controllers they would say, It's castle Creations or nothing.  

Now they are just as expensive!

Yeah it kind of makes me laugh that Babylon........its lose lose IMO, they do make good usable products, far cheaper for rc companies listed above to simply buy them in bulk off the shelf from hobbywing, albeit rebadged, than to put time and effort into r+d etc etc to create your own.......

 

Which is great, but is obviously not sustainable in the long term, as in the end....almost every company will use hobbywing esc's....which is bad for the hobby as a whole as theirs no variety/competition.....years down the line the rc companies will realise they've gone from using off the shelf ESC's to increase profit margins etc etc to completely relying on hobbywing for components......kyosho is an example of this.

 

One should presume that this comparable 'micro example' will filter out to every level of the hobby....as it is echoed around the world in manufacturing......great for 20 years...not so great for the future after that.....

 

"Cutting off your nose to spite your own face" springs to mind.....

 

Ho hum, what can be done???

 

I won't drag this ......any further...

 

 

After edit: food for thought, ty tessman has just signed with hobbywing for the next two years!!!

Edited January 6, 2018 by Fly In My Soup