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I've flown many digital hitec's, JR and futaba's all with zero failure. The only major servo I have never tried is airtronics. Futaba 9252's, JR 8411's and 8611's, Hitec 5925/5945's and others in their lines.
I always wonder if a servo fails of any kind how much of that is due to improper setup. Also how many of these cases where a servo looks like it failed only after looking at the post wreckage. Probably lots of pilots blame crashes on equipment failure, interference or something else other than pilot error. I wonder as a sidebar how many crashes in general that are blamed on equipment are really pilot or builder error
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If a servo fails it usually is one of the following:
Dirty Power / Low power
Noise / Poor Connections
Installation / Rigging / Linkage
Improper Maintenance (i.e. gear wear)
Old Age
Funny how those who have one failure are very vocal about it, yet those of us who fly for years and years without an incident don't need to say a thing..... Frankly, I'de rather spend my time making sure the conditions above are not in our setups....
DP