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Originally Posted by ProfessorAlekM
I get that the company has to make a profit, as well as pay for the cost of design, but $60 for a victorSP?!?! It would only cost $5-$25 to make a motor controller with the same functionality.
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Unless you started mass producing it would actually be very expensive to too make a motor controller even like the old talons or victors, there is a lot of engineering that goes into them first off. PCBs are very expensive in small quantities, and components are very expensive in small quantities. These PCB's are not necessarily something a home gamer could produce either, you need via's in the board to connect top and bottom traces, as well as plated through holes for that parts to handle the current and connect top and bottom traces. I know this because I work in a circuit board shop.