Thread: What do you think of the jaguars?
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Re: What do you think of the jaguars?
Unfortunately, all of our evidence is anecdotal rather than quantitative. However, I will point out a few things you can count on.

Victors were a proven product. As such, when something went wrong with a victor, it was very rare to see a team come here and complain about it.

In the same vein, the newness of the Jaguars tempts a lot of people to jump on Chief Delphi the second they have a problem and post about it. Chief Delphi is a very non-representative sample of the actual durability of the Jaguars.

I'm not sure how willing IFI or Micro-Luminary would be to share comparable failure rates, but that's the only way you're going to get a real answer to that question.

Regarding the power question, we hooked a Jaguar and a Victor up to the same motor, which was connected to an encoder. The Victor produced a 7% higher rate on the encoder, but the speed curves looked horrible compared to the Jag.

I'm not sure exactly how a change in free speed rate correlates to an actual power change - we didn't check the amperage output of both under load because we don't have a multimeter that runs that high.