OS brushless!

[Richard]

http://www.osengines.com/motors/index.html

Is this the beginning of the end for IC engines?

For sale now at http://www.robotbirds.co.uk

[giskard]

I think it's the middle of the end ;o)

[nitroairplane]

I have watched this development for. A while and it terrible that one of if not the most famous engine company has bought into the electric Market.

[Tony Smith]

It will be O.S ESC's and lipo's next......must be manic in the factory with all those different cans to colour.....

[solentlife]

Forgive me for saying this, but if you were a model manufacturer and you saw the model world moving into new territory increasingly away from your products ........ what would you do ?

They are not only ones ... nearly all motor car manufacturers are playing with electric and alternative power vehicles ........

Personally I feel that Glow power will tail of and small to medium size models will go mostly electric, while large models will go gasoline ...

It's ease of use, price of fuel, etc. that will do this.

[YOUNG GUN]

I wonder if OS engines have designed and made these themselves

IF NOT: Then who makes them?

IF SO: What does an IC Engine manufacture know about ELECTRIC motors?

[Tony Smith]

I very much doubt O.S designed their own brushles motors, just had them 'speced' to suit. probably made by the same manufacturers as Hyperion, Turnigy,Scorpion, Jeti.......?
I concur with Solentlife, wether 'O.S Brushless motors' are any good remains to be seen.....

[solentlife]

Maybe we can answer the Who makes it this way ...

For years people paid for Brand name computers .... knocking the upstarts like Acer ........... Little did they realise that Acer was the largest PC component maker ... who then decided that instead of just supplying parts to others - would make their own computers.

I very much doubt OS have the tooling or in-house production for ANY product in fact ... that includes their engines.

With many products it really has come down to a limited number of actual production facilities, but millions of name-tags to apply to them. Blimey - even the supreme girlie toy - the IPhone is made by a Chinese contract factory !!

[YOUNG GUN]

I've said the same about cars before... their may be 100's of brands in the world but when you boil them down, theres only about 5. The VAG group is a prime example, with VW parts even finding their way into Bentleys!

Its how things are today i guess..

I'll never forget buying a brand new panasonic hifi once... peering inside thru the casing i could see Chips with "Sony" written on there. Same with a Kodak camera.. it had Toshiba chips in there. Who knows what ya buying

[Richard]

Remember the old intel CPUs when speed was measured in Mhz. They would make batch of CPUs, test them and grade them according to failures. So you end up with a 486 rated as 25, 33, 40, 66, 100 mhz CPUs. If I remember correctly the difference between a 486DX and SX was the SX was missing some dedicated floating point section as it failed that test.

Would that explain why the likes of a Panasonic hifi had Sony chips in it, they were of a lesser grade than those in through Sony hifi...

Whats this got to do with brushless motors