One season running 5995's at 7.4V, and everything is doing just fine. Six years with running a system that way, everything is running fine. A friends is working just fine too.
I doubt if my friend and I are just lucky.
Do the people saying this won't work sell regulators by chance? I doubt if the want to get into their profit.
ORIGINAL: sillyness
Darrinc,
I see you recommending the 5955 at 7.4 V all over the forums. For the record, neither HITEC nor Troy Built Models, nor anybody else, recommends running the 5955 at 7.4V in aircraft applications. They are only recommended at 7.4V for robot applications (that's actually the 5995, but they are basically the same servo) where stresses are far less and a burned out servo does not result in catastrophic failure. Also, a fresh LiPo is burning that servo at 8.4V... it gets pretty warm at anything over 6V.
Anyways, it's hard to tell what he's talking about, but it looks like he only has a single servo with poor geometry.
Wanted to clarify... don't blame HITEC when you start smoking motors.