Geckodrive: Back to Basics and Price Drops
Since Geckodrive started we have tried to be three things: economical, high quality, and have support for all products and applications. Slowly, over the years our products maintained only two of those things as the prices climbed due to higher cost of manufacturing. With competition from countries that have much lower labor costs increasing we are doubling down on the commitment to low prices by immediately slashing ours, beginning with the G201X and the G540. We have already lowered our G251X and G250X prices, and we are going to evaluate our most popular products to see how low we can go in single unit quantities.
The G201, our first drive, had a single unit price of only $99, which was lower than nearly any other drive on the market. Right now our G251X has a single unit price of $59, and we are going to bring the G201X from $127 to $99 as well. Our most popular end-user product, the G540, will get a price cut from $299 to $269, saving everyone $30 per unit. This will make American made motor controls affordable for most users, while maintaining our high quality standards and excellent technical support.
In addition to this we are increasing our standard warranty period from one year to three years. All drives are grandfathered in to this so you do not have to do anything to take advantage of this. This includes our famous “one time, stuff happens” policy of replacing a destroyed drive no matter what its cause of death was. We will also continue our policy of never charging for repairs; if your drive is fixable we will do so for free. Everything written above applies to the drive no matter where it was purchased so you can buy our product packaged with third party products with peace of mind knowing you have our full warranty backing you.
In a few short weeks we will be launching our new website that is designed to be equal parts store and equal parts technical resource. We are writing new documentation and application notes that expand on our Step Motor Basics Guide and creating a whole new series called CNC Basics. Our website will be a mix of information for OEMs and end-users alike and we hope to add any user requested features quickly.
Now is the part that we are most interested in. What is it you want to see from Geckodrive? What can we improve on? We want to do everything we can to be the best choice out there for motor controls, so let us know what we can do to improve.
Marcus Freimanis
www.geckodrive.com