Building my router table a dozen years ago, I went with the big green Hitachi M12V 3.25 hp router (with the matching Woodpeckers lift) when you could get them for around $125. Replaced the VS control once. Recently I was getting some vibration then all of a sudden I noticed it stopped spinning almost immediately when turned off. Pulled it apart and one bearing was almost totally seized up. New ones on order, waiting to get big green running again for $25 in parts. I guess spinning those big panel raising bits will do a number on your bearings after about a hundred panels, plus all the other related routing done on the table in over a dozen years.