ORIGINAL: JohnBuckner
While blind installation of new or old/crashed servos without a simple burn in for a short period on the grounds that you are wearing out the servo may be acceptable to some however that premise is about as absurd as saying the same for breaking in an engine.
The original question was "how to test old servos" and the fact remains that inaddition to feeling for stripped gears manually running the servo in a continuous mode for a short period with a servo driver is an important part of that "test".
John
Am I supposed to bow to your greater experience or something?
I did not imply that testing servos would wear them out, so why did you infer it?
My point is that if a servo is nearing the end of its life, as in "How to test OLD servos", then a functional test merely serves to show that they are functional, at that time, and not that they only have a few hours left in them.
I agree that testing servos with one of these cyclers has the possibility of catching infant mortalities and that it will also find servos with damaged mechanics.