I maintain a List of offtheshelf BLDC controllers for vehicles . You may find one there that will fit your needs , so you don ' t have to design your own . <| sep |> They clearly could have saved themselves some trouble by paying a handful of people to reach out to the community before hand . If people don ' t show up to planning meetings they don ' t and you want to avoid the cost of lashing back from the community , then reach out to he community . At this point they could have saved millions . <| sep |> Regardless of my colleagues predicament , that is such an entitled view . Where is it guaranteed that someone with a PhD deserves to earn X amount ? People who who pursue a PhD know what they ' re getting into or , if they don ' t , they didn ' t think hard enough . Would you pay a 5 th year grad student ~ 45 , 000 ? I certainly wouldn ' t , and a first year postdoc is essentially a 5 th year graduate student with a piece of paper that says PhD .