You gotta love when guys take it personal

Paul,

Why not try the 8611's using the same exact mix setup that you did on the hitec's to compare apples to apples. If they don't fail without the matchboxes or equalizer then maybe you have a case. However without testing that way your method is not scientific and you are not drawing a fair conclusion based on your methodology of testing. Since they are not programmable this is not possible so you cannot draw a result from an apple to apple test I guess.

The lead/lag may very well have been the cause and so could the crash. You just don't have enough data to say that those were the reasons or if it was just a simple failure without any relation whatsoever to those issues. My problem is that I've done many studies in college and after and we deal with the scientific method and statistics. You are not using any generally accepted methods to draw your conclusions. You were bold enough to use just mixes on the hitec's so why not use it on the other servos in the same way? I don't know if the airtronics are programmable but if they aren't then you can't even compare this to test the theory and thus cannot draw any reasonable conclusions.

What you want to test is whether the mix you used could be the cause of failure.

I'm not saying that the mix, setup, or crash were the cause and I am NOT saying that it wasn't. What I am saying though is that nobody has proper data to draw any conclusion. You have made conclusions based on incomplete data, testing and samples. That is fine if it makes you feel better but your conclusions are a red herring to the real facts which are unknown to all (even you).

marc