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Old 02-24-2017, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by niznai
Manufacturers don't sell motors if people don't buy them. And why would people buy a new motor if the old one is just as good? See the incentive to push the envelope?

Threads like these always come back to two kinds of solutions. Regulate the bejesus out of the motor or try something indirect, like limiting the gearing or some such. I think the latter has more of a chance to stick, because regulating is never going to be perfect, or some ingenious manufacturer will always find some new technology that didn't exist last year and push the envelope again. Perhaps we could take a look at the TCS series and just measure some simple motor parameter (we can do rev, current, timing etc. at a given voltage or just go fixed FDR) and leave manufacturers to do whatever they want. After all you can't control what they're doing anyway. This approach would also have the benefit of removing the incentive to buy a million motors hoping you'll find the better one of a batch.
This is the tail wagging the dog approach. If you let the builder/designer have the say in pushing the envelope and the racers have to follow their lead, the manufacturers become the tail of the dog. We the buyer of the motor will chase the next best thing, our own tail so be it, just to be competitive. The dictation of what we want should be pushed through the sanctioning body and the manufacturer should then comply. Instead we get creative ways for the manufacturer to bypass the system and create whatever the hell they want and push it through a testing system that has more holes than a sieve. Will it make design stale? Who cares. Close the loopholes so we don't lose any more racers over motor wars.
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