THE QUANTUM TEST LAB: QUALITY THROUGH INNOVATION
The Quantum R&D lab is a scientifically controlled environment. It only looks out of control.
Where the untrained ear might (we say "might" because our lab is a restricted access area where few have the privilege to go) hear an onslaught of clicks and cranks, Quantum engineers hear a symphony. That relentless repetition is music to their ears, and they spend many hours fine-tuning it.
Where the casual eye might see only chaos of motion, flashing lights and computer printouts, Quantum engineers see nothing but opportunity. "Perfect” doesn’t exist in their world.
In this day and time, cookie-cutter reels are out there in big numbers. You know which ones they are … the ones that look alike, except perhaps for color and the different names on them.
At Quantum, innovation and technology are the very things that set us apart. A Quantum reel is a Quantum reel. Designed by us. Built by us. Tested by us. Inside the Quantum test lab, anything is possible. A decade, even two, can be condensed into a single week of real time. That allows a lifetime analysis of wear and tear on any given reel, or any given part, quickly and qualitatively. Few other companies have been willing to make the kind of commitment (or one at all) to R & D like we have.
Our testing processes and lab equipment have to be built as we go … they don’t exist elsewhere. And we’re constantly tweaking them, adding new things in an ongoing evolution for improvement. What never changes though, is our focus on making sure we’re giving you the very best products we can possibly make. Here’s part of our formula for success.
Endurance
All Quantum reels—and all the gears, bearings and other critical
components within them—are brutally pushed to assess performance.
Not casual use performance, but the real deal. It’s all about a reel’s
life in the fast line, without tender loving care. (We know how fishing
products are treated once they leave original packaging.)
Acceleration
We don’t have the luxury of being able to spend actual "years” in
testing performance over a reel’s life. The changes in materials,
technology and designs occur too rapidly for that to be practical. So,
what we do is greatly accelerate and exaggerate time and use by putting
our reels through extreme conditions over an abbreviated period. For example,
only a small percentage of a reel’s overall life might ever be spent
reeling in big-lipped, hard-pulling deep diving crankbaits, but our "load” test
simulates "years” of that kind of abuse through the use of
suspended weights and round-the-clock automated cranking. Guess you could
call it the "world’s heaviest deep diving crankbait” test.
However, it’s just one of several tests found in our 24-7 schedule
of casts and spins unlike anything a product will ever encounter in a real
lifetime of fishing.
