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Originally Posted by Tungrus
I would rather pay little more and buy from someone who has designed and made the encoders (or anything or from any country for that matter) as long as they own the intellectual properties for the product. It's unfortunate that many companies steal designs or copy products from others and make quick buck.  |
No offense but optical encoders have been around for decades.
As much as I too would like to take the 'high road' here:
First let us start with a basic question: who invented the first shaft encoder?
You are tossing around the suggestion that they stole it.
So let us demonstrate from whom.
Consider this a lesson for the students.
Hint: Look up Murray Hill, NJ....Dr. John Northrup Shive....Bell Telephone Laboratories.
I take some issue with the use of non-American parts to operate U.S. FIRST as well.
Then again ask National Instrument to catalog where their parts and assembly come from.
The $2,000+ 8 slot cRIO myself and another mentor bought was shipped to us from Turkey.
That doesn't sound like 'Made in America' to me.
So why is it okay to use labor unknown from one country but not another?
Can you prove that abuses of labor are any less in one place than the other?
Have you personally checked?
Keep in mind when I bid on the 2015 control system I was going to do *all* the assembly in the United States.
I flatly stated in writing that the additional cost was irrelevant to the potential quality control issues.
Never mind the potential language barrier (my Chinese is laughable).
I did not suggest these other countries were thieves without evidence.
Here's your chance show your evidence.
I note that in the topic about the RoboRio you never asked where that product came from but did admire the cost savings.
Further *who am I* to decide that teams with deep pockets are more entitled to working encoders than teams just managing to show up? Why should those with less in their purse not buy parts probably made by those with less in their purse?
Now I have encoders to test you seem relatively new here you might want to take note:
Of all the people you could try to insert your politics with >I am the last person on Earth< to do it with.
If I think your case is questionable I will poke holes in it.
It is not personal nor is it about whom you are with politically or otherwise.
It is merely my scientific method which is quite incompatible with politics.
Do not assume that as a member of Team 11 they control me either or that I speak for them.
I am me and my choices are my own.
Sorry if that's a little rough but when you end on an angry emoticon you should recognize the types of response you might get back.