RE: Which (chinese) facctories make various brands of ESC ..?
<span style="font-size: small">POINTS TO MAKE:
</span>1. These hugely differing prices, for identical 100A HV ESC's, with identical features, made in the same factory, is striking.
2. The SJ PROPO (original factory brand) 100A HV unit is $127 ( -from Duanesplanes).
-We can pay up to 240% more than this ($299), for the identical ESC, if we buy the same re-branded and identical Robbe 100A HV ESC from ConradUK.
3. Clearly, the SJ PROPO-branded 100A HV unit is cheapest; We can pay another $80 for the identical O.S. 100A HV ESC (-and it does not even have a fan ...-it is otherwise identical to the SJ PROPO 100A HV ESC); -And we can pay a still further$70 if we buy the identical Robbe 100A HV ESC, from Midland Helicopters in the UK..</p>
4. <span style="font-size: small">What does this tell us?</span> If we buy an original factory brand unit, labelled as SJ PROPO, or a "budget" brand such as MegaPower, -then we get the 100A HV ESC for the cheapest price.
<span style="font-size: small">But:</span> As soon as we buy an O.S.-branded ESC, or a Robbe-branded ESC -even though they are identical units, made in the same SJ factory, with identical features -the only difference is that they havebeen re-branded as "O.S." or "Robbe" with a stick-on label -then we have to pay 80% -or up to 240% -more, for the very same identical ESC, made side-by-side in the same factory.</p>
5. And <span style="font-size: small">why</span> do O.S. and Robbe cost 80%-or up to 240%-morethan the original branded identical ESC ...?
-The only possible reason that we are paying this extra amount for O.S.-branded and Robbe-branded units -sincethey are identical 100A HV ESC's in all respects -is just so we can have the O.S. or Robbe label stuck on the outside of the ESC..?</p>
<span style="font-size: medium"> -There appears to beno other logical reason ... ?</span></p>