ORIGINAL: aeajr I value innovation. Those "high priced" providers make more profit and can afford to plow that profit into new designs and innovation. The "cloners" feed off that design and spend their efforts copying the work of others.
Ed, I make 3 brief, relevant points here:
1. If you think that Hacker has taken any part in the design of their purple motors, then you are almost certainly mistaken see:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=11470217
-All the design and engineering of these motors has been done by the OEM company SunRay Technology. And Hacker just buy various of the generic SunRay motors, and have them made in a purple colour. Torque buy the same SunRay generic motors, and get them made in a red colour; Hyperion buy the same SunRay generic motors, and get them made in a blue colour; Gens Ace buy the same SunRay generic motors, and get them made in a green colour; HobbyKing buy the same SunRay generic motors, and get them made in a chrome colour; Pelikan Foxy buy the same SunRay generic motors, and get them made with a black can and blue end housings; and so on; and so on; and so on; .......
see:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=11443146</p>
2. So if you might think the much higher price that Hacker charges for the same identical motor provides money that is then spent by Hacker on innovation and new designs, it would seem thatis very unlikely to be the case.</p>
3. Finally, other motors that SunRay Tech makes, such as Shulman Aviation FURY, Gens Ace, Common-Sense-RC, LiPolice, OK Hobby Infinite, Pelikan Foxy, Turnigy SK3 cannot be described as "clones" -they are just the same basic SunRay motor as Hacker and E-F Torque, but clothed with outer garments of a different colour and sometimes a slightly different style.
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