Bottom Feeder wrote: ↑Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:36 pm
Just got a new HW 1060 in the mail today. This thing is small! And somehow better specs than any of the other brushed ESCs I have in my stash of (admittedly lower-end) so-far-unused ESCs. Makes me want to replace all of them with these things. Also makes me wonder if there's even a market for them when you can buy something apparently this good this cheap.
:shrug:
One of our racers in the Iconic Cup vintage race series which uses brushed motors and had his high end old school ESC die on him when racing, and his only option to keep racing was to buy a 1060 and fit it. He went faster with the 1060.
Your suggestion that Hobbywing was just putting their name on a cheap, no name ESC couldn't be further from the truth. Most ESCs included in RTR cars are usually car manufacturer branded Hobbywing ESCs, and they will sell cheaper unbranded versions of their own ESCs to other vendors, usually older or lower spec versions using cheaper components and no packaging. For example a Surpass 1060 is just an older Hobbywing 1060 without the nice packaging and accessories, and without the customer service backup from Hobbywings distributors.
They are also copied by other factories so anything extremely cheap with no name is often a clone.
They have a huge factory that makes everything in house, as can be seen in this factory tour.
https://youtu.be/fV7cuE0dzfM