It is amazing how people can misconstrue events when they were not there! I am not even going to address the crashed servo comment because the thought that I would use a "crash damaged" servo in a $4000 plane is just rediculas! The servos in question...in my case.....were in a composite airplane that had what amounted to a dead stick landing in the rough that resulted in a broke fuse around the gear plate. Because it was composite it was not feasible to repair. The back half and the servos were untouched! BUT MY OPINION IS NOT BASED ON ONE ISOLATED INCIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! <-----GO BACK AND READ AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Since we are going to do this...again.......I know of at least three planes locally destroyed directly due to these hitec 5945 servos!!!!! in one case a guy lost two planes over the summer (a 2.6 comp-arf with an elevator hard over and a Dave patrick edge with a rudder hard over....fact) and in no case was either servo ganged with another!!!

Search: " 8411 failures"......85 threads with many featuring Hitec failures, almost not about a JR! The point is no matter what brand you look up it always comes back to Hitec with the highest failure rate! Never did we hear about this rate of failures until Hitecs became widely available! Guys have been ganging servos for years....and without match boxes! Did we hear about this kind of failure rate...no! There was a poll that followed the above post that jonkoppisch mentioned that had 16 out of 85 Hitec users checking the "had a failure" box! That is rediculas!!

If you have had great luck...more power to ya! I sincerely hope you get another 1000 flights! But when someone says that they failed and yours didn't consider yourself lucky that it wasn't your $4000-$8000 investment that was destroyed cause of a Hitec servo. Find one guy that lost a plane due to a JR ot Futaba servo failure and I will put up cash that I can find at least 5 that lost one due to Hitec! This is based on all the information available to us...............not just my one bad experience. If you want to bury you head in the sand..go ahead it's your money. If you want to drink the Cool-Aid well.....bottoms up! After all my plane had eight 5945s in it and ONLY TWO failed! Hey that's not bad odds....right?

Leardrive