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Old 12-17-2006, 04:49 PM
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PlagueWielder
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Default potentiometer gone dead

Hey guys,

I have an almost brand new mini metal geared servo (similar to the hitec 81MG or 85MG). It has flew around 4-5 times on the plane (29% Giles with an OS 1.60). The engine is soft-mounted to reduce shaking.
Anyway, yesterday I turned the plane on and the servo started to dance where ever I put it at... simply the potentiometer got screwed up. I tried other servo slots and it was the same.

Anyway, what do you guys think caused it? Could it be a bad servo? Servo linkage not good (metal pushrod)...? I had a standard servo (3004) there before with the same linkage and it was fine for a lot of flights.

Thanks

Eliraz