Is the blue light on, on the Rx? it sounds like you need to bind the Rx. Go through the bind process again and see if that does it. I had to talk my brother and brother in law through it over the phone. They tried several times and did not get it done. I talked them through it and it came on. They missed a single step, and it would not work.

The Futaba servos will work well with the RDS8000


Dru.