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Old 08-26-2019, 03:22 PM   #73 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pete c View Post
I agree. A technician, trained to diagnose, then repair a wide range of systems costs that much and more.

But, we aren’t talking about that dude.

We are talking about bench production work. Anyone with a room temp IQ Aand a modicum if manual dexterity, can be trained to perform such a task. If you can keep him busy, his costs should be a good bit below 50/hr.
Then you incur shipping cost to a rebuild center.

No matter how you cut it there is no reason to go with hub motors over established motor, transaxle setups.
But anyone who loves wasting money can be my guest.

I see no advantage to hub motors at this point.
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