New 1/5 Kershaw Motor
 

Kershaw Designs has put up a new "coming soon" motor. It is bigger than a 1717 and sells for $160 bucks. Who is going to try it?

nice of them to start even knocking off names not just designs

I heard they had some new motors and escs coming out soon ( email flyer ), but that looks like some chinese clone to me- just like a 1515 sized clone some guy bought a few months back that suffered an exploded rotor. I'd wait for the Castle 20XX motor myself....

I wouldn't buy one, No way their gonna have Castle qaulity or Customer service for when the smoke gets let out.

This pictures is a false one...

The motor at the left is a 2200kV castle, ok.
The center motor is a bigger picture of a castle 1512 1Y 2650kV, just count the number of the fins :

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8481/img00701.jpg

The motor at the risht side is an ORION 2050kV 2 poles with a resized picture :

http://www.modelsport.co.uk/_images/...l/ori28803.jpg

This is a total joke....

I wouldn't buy anything from Dan @ kershaw.

i learned that the hard way

You are absolutely correct, sir...some Photoshop work created that "KD" picture!

...And some very poor Photoshopping work at that! Looks like they used MS Paint!

Yea, for real!

More like a cell phone app.

How does this guy continue to do business?

Wow, hella lame.

He actually stole the design from me, because I designed a super-special 1/5 scale brushless motor...below is the picture of my motor compared to two other well-known brands;

http://pics.offroadextremes.com/rc/motors.gif

Put me down for two!

Order processed, motors will ship soon! :)

Man, your fellow competitors are gonna be sooo jealous!

I'm not normally the type to jump on the bashing train, but I've used one of his products (in addition to what I've seen on forums) and KD stuff is certainly not worth the price they charge. The workman ship is not clean and looks incredibly rushed.

Speaking of which, didn't another lower tier "leader in BIG fast electric RC" fizzle out a while ago or has that festering sore grown back?

Hmmm, I am drawing a blank here...

P.S: "Unobtainium", hehe, I love Associated and it's "super-metal" names!!!

FineDesign^ ( Chris and his bro had to stop taking paychecks because business is so bad ).

I noticed the bad picture quality, but alot of pictures on the KD website are like that. Didnt think he'd sink to photoshopping motors because he either didnt have a good picture or wanted to mislead people deliberately; only 1/5 scale 2 pole motor I would use is a lehner.

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...-2-Pole-2050kV

You gotta be shitting me if hes calling that^ 1/5 scale....

The dimensions say 54x96 so it can't be the same as the Orion motor. For comparison, how big is the Castle 1717?

No one is saying it will be the orion motor, he just edited a photo of the orion motor to represent his 5th scale motor.

Good point. Its still all rather fishy though...

http://www.yeshobby.com/advanced_sea...keywords=motor
http://www.yeshobby.com/images/produ...60017TA_01.jpg
Maybe?

Obviously no one considered that the bunch of detectives would nit-pick and and scutinize the photo as closly as you all have ?
:rofl::rofl:

If he plans on selling a 1/5 BL motor, and he didn't have a picture of it yet, he should have just had an "Image Not Available" thing instead of PhotoChopping an Orion Vortex 8 and two other CC/Neu motors, resizing and recoloring them.

I thought Neil was...

But I think it's just a huge Feigao clone with fins.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that dislike's Kershaw. He ripped me off on a small item, which is sad because if he hadn't I would've likely purchased more stuff. Poor business practices, so even if the product fails, good luck with his lack of customer service. It's also likely that is a 2-pole motor. As stated, I wouldn't put a 2-pole in a 1/5 scale unless it were a Lehner.

There is no motor, that's the problem/point! He Photoshopped a picture of an existing Orion Vortex-8 1/8 BL Motor, changing the size and color, and said it was his new 1/5 BL motor.

my experience with kershaw isn't that great either.

Is this a very very late April fools joke?

Nah.

Nay, it was nuz69 on page one that identified the motor as being the Orion, I just googled it and found a link.

Wow a 1/5 scale motor for $159.00!

I like this one.
"Feigao 580L Brushless Motor
For the BIGGEST, most powerful motor on the block, try bolting this motor in place. MUCH more power than the Castle motor".

Technically speaking, this is true. A Castle motor could mean Castle's 1/10 scale motors. :rules:

pshhh they wish. maybe a cm 28 1/18th scale..

Yeah. JUst as an FYI for anyone who doesnt know- the feigao 580 motors are absolute junk, as tested by atleast a couple RC-M members already. Neu, Plett, Lehner and Castle are the only guys with viable 1/5 inrunners I know about...

Now, hold on there. I bet that is the most powerful motor on the block.... after all, LOTS of power is generated when they blow. :lol:

Power rating: 15,000W*











* For about 1 second when the phases short out until the ESC blows too.


You always gotta read the fine print!