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Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/23/2006 10:44:45 PM   
wildchild45177



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Status: offline 		I have always used Futaba in the past and never had a failure. Recently I have been interested in the Hitec digitals because of price and the fact that they can be programed. After searching and reading, I find many more problems and failures, than happy customers. I think I'll stick with my Futaba. The cost is higher sure, but you know the old saying, you get what you pay for.
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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/23/2006 11:24:17 PM   
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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/23/2006 11:56:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		well now-- let me see. I use a large amount of different servos from JR, Hitec, Futaba, GWS, Multiplex, etc..... and I have never had a real problem with brand. However, I fail to see the need to express my displeasure with an item that I have never had any experience with. So I will agree-I only use what I know will work- I think I will continue to use only JR, Hitec, Futaba, GWS, Multiplex, etc......

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 2:23:48 AM   
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I apologize for posting on your company forum but comments like Wildchilds just get on my nerves. If you don't like something then don't use it. To post your message offers no value to anyone. I use Hitec, JR, and Futaba. I like all three. I have had issues with all three. I will continue to use all three. I have to replace my gears in my JR servos about every 50-80 flights. In the same application my Hitec servos last to about 150-200 flights. I will continue to use JR and Hitec.

What point are you trying to make? Better Yet, lets just ignore this post. (probably what I should have done in the first place)

Again, Mike. Sorry to interfere

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 2:48:48 AM   
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To post your message offers no value to anyone. I use Hitec, JR, and Futaba. I like all three. I have had issues with all three. I will continue to use all three. I have to replace my gears in my JR servos about every 50-80 flights. In the same application my Hitec servos last to about 150-200 flights. I will continue to use JR and Hitec.

What point are you trying to make? Better Yet, lets just ignore this post. (probably what I should have done in the first place)



Yea-- my point exactly-- but I like the way you said it better.

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 4:23:23 AM   
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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 4:41:37 AM   
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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 4:50:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Remember the statistics. How many more Hitech servos are sold than any other brand servo? Many, many more but I don't have the numbers, Mike does.

Also the only posts you saw were complaints, not the ones from the 100,000 other people that like them. I am one of the ones who has used them and really like them. So go ahead and try them you just might become one of us.

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 5:42:42 AM   
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ORIGINAL: wildchild45177

One can only learn two ways. Experience, or reading others experience, and from what I read here others have had bad experience.
I'm sorry if we don't agree, but then we don't have to do we.


I agree.

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Thats what America is about. Freedom to have an opinion, and freedom to let it be known. Thanks Bob


But you were not expressing your own opinions from experience, rather you were spreading others' discontent, which is meaningless. A poll could have been better if you truely want people's feedback, both good and bad.

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 6:02:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		I only use Hitec servos, and the only one that I had that started to go bad was replaced for free.

Hard to complain about that.

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 7:25:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		"Hitec? You Mean Lowtec" To make a statement like this based entirely on heresay (heresay is decidedly not experiance) is the height of ignorance.

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 9:52:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		In reply to Infinite Gundam: You are correct. A poll would better tell what I really want to know, and that is, what is the ratio of good to bad. In reply to Joe AirPort: I'm not saying I'm right, but if you actually read the manufacture support forums, you will see that while some brands have more failure rates than others. I simply want to make sure I can trust my plane to the radio gear I choose.

Thanks Bob

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 12:27:20 PM   
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One can only learn two ways. Experience, or reading others experience, and from what I read here others have had bad experience.
I'm sorry if we don't agree, but then we don't have to do we. Thats what America is about. Freedom to have an opinion, and freedom to let it be known. Thanks Bob


My question is "Why Here"-- why not in the general radio forum. Why choose the support where Hitec users come to have questions answered. It seems you choose a strange place to express your dis-satisfation over a product that has not cost you a dime. I am sorry, but I don't see why somebody would come to this site when you "don't have a dog in the fight" It sounds like a troll to me (and here I am feeding it ) Oh well-- as the forum says "Ask Hitec Customer Service" your question and move on.

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RE: Hitec? You Mean Lowtec - 2/24/2006 3:04:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Since this the Hitec Manufacturer's Direct Support Forum and this thread is more of an open Forum thread I'm going to lock it down.

If ya'll deem it necessary please start a new thread in the General Radio Forum.

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