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Old 09-13-2010 | 08:54 PM
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Default RE: Servo (what to use)

Just a thought about servos. What you see today is pretty much all digitals and people swearing about them. I use them myself and I agree, they really are great and hold well. Thing is, it has only been a decade, just 10 short years sense the big digital craze. A good servo back then was just a standard 48 inch pound analog with ball bearings. We used these in everything from 40 to giant scale size planes.
Today I see people stating digital high end servos are a must?? Perhaps if you are flying giant scale 3-D planes but for most sport pilots any good standard servo in a 60 size plane or smaller is going to work. Montague mentioned the HT 5465 digital and I found these lower end digitals perfect for sport flying for those of us that like the holding power of the digitals.
I have a lot of the high end digitals but they sure aren't going into a 60 size plane when something less costly will work. The industry has marketed these servos very well and people today are buying into the must have line of thinking. They may be nice but too many people seem to feel it's the only way to go with servos, nice they be but don't buy into the hype!!