ORIGINAL: Steve S. Helland
Question:
Is the old saying ''you get what you pay for'' true of these servos? They are seemingly priced too good to believe! It is hard to believe that there is really $90 worth of stuff in a high end/high torque/high speed name brand servo. Have we been spending exhorbant amounts of money all this time?
Has anyone tried these servos? (ref) $18+ for 200+ ounces of torque, metal gears, futaba splines, .16 on the speed etc. as advertised on T*M's website...hmmm. I fly mostly 50cc sized planes.
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I sold them for a while at Wild Hare Hobbies. This is like the line in the child's poem "when they were good they were very very good but when they were bad they were terrible".
I mainly sold the 9150s, and they were excellent servos as long as they worked. But the few failures that occurred tended to fail in a hard-over condition, which is almost always fatal if it happens in the air. I stopped selling them because of this and I have replaced them with Airtronics servos for medium priced giant scale servos.
TF