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Old 12-17-2007 | 07:02 PM
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From: Tokoroa, , NEW ZEALAND
Default RE: 3D servos


ORIGINAL: Al Lewis

Just looked your plane up and I would personally say that 5955s all the way around on this thing will be way overkill. Stick one on your rudder and put 5985s one everything else. At $115.00 a piece you're probably not going to need those until you get to 33% gassers. I just changed my 30% gasser over to 5985s on everything but the rudder which is 5955 and it's got plenty of power and speed to throw the surfaces. .
You'd have to be crazy to pay $115 for 5955TG servos, the 'street price" is around $89 (and I bought mine on special for $84). Even at $89, that makes them the *SAME PRICE* as the 5985s from Servo City.

For *no* extra money you get titanium gears that seemingly *never* need replacing, *twice* the torque and essentially the same speed.

It's a no-brainer -- why waste money on a lesser servo with aluminum gears that will cost you nearly $20 when they need replacing -- effectively making them *more* expensive than the 5955TGs.

I've got Hitec 5925, 5945 and 5955TGs -- I'm not going to bother buying anything other than 5955TGs now.

There's no such thing as "overkill" when it comes to servos -- using one that's more powerful than you need will not harm anything -- except maybe slightly reduce the number of flights you get per charge from your flightpack.