Randy - good to hear on the 5030's. We tried all of them my LHS had in stock, and they all were "nervous" on 6.0V and above. (6.6, etc). 4.8 they were fine.

Maybe there were a few that weren't as smooth as the rest, and my LHS just happened to get some from that batch. I am going to try them again, always figured I would, just haven't done that yet.

ALso, your experience with the H5000 is good? I've considered them, too - good specs, the right size to fit in a Q500 or Q40 (or EF-1) and they're still less expensive than the 3421's.

I did pick up a couple of Futaba 9650's when tower had them for 49.99 one day, looking forward to trying them, too.

Keep us posted on your experiences with those A5030's - a 20 dollar digital servo would be great!