Re: MOTOR PROBLEMS/OPPORTUN

[Michael Neverdosky <MichaelN@cycat.com>]

A lot depends on price.
At $200 for a 20 HP series DC motor, I would buy at least one
NOW and probably 2 or 3 per year.
At $500, I would probably buy one before the end of the year 
and likely 1 or 2 per year.
At $1000, I would be buying one sometime next year and don't 
know about after that.

Sometimes it pays to look for other sied markets that will help
to support the scale of production that makes a good price point
possible.
Who else is using DC motors of this basic size and type?
Who might use them if they would do the job of an existing motor
for less money?

There are lots of DC motors in use in industry, in all sorts of 
machines.
There are thousands of machines that feed metal from a coil into
a punch press that use DC motors in S. California alone.
I once repaired such a machine where the customer spent $4000 for
a new motor and $3500 for air freight to get it the next day so
they could get production running again.
Do you think this guy might buy 2 or 3 motors at $1000 each that would
do the same job and keep one on hand as a spare?

BTW I would also be interested in smaller motors, on the order of 5 and 10
HP.

I am in the midst of moving from central FL to PA, so it is hard for me
to commit to major purchases just this instant.  :-((

michael  MichaelN@cycat.com

ev@listproc.sjsu.edu wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob.  Thanks for the encouragement.  It would be nice to
> try to push the state of the art in EV's towards more reliability
> (as people purport).  YMNV (A. Einstein, he also said a lot
> of other shocking things)  Unfortunately, there does not
> seem to be a large enough market to make something happen
> here.  I will have to talk with some of the EV supply house
> people as well, but just because I think that an idea is
> great does not mean that it will sell.  Does anyone know
> what the market is for EV motors (sales/year)?
> Eric