Today I flew my EDF FA-18 all balsa from HET and it was only the second flight and the first plane I ever put digital servo's in. 10 Seconds into the flight hard left roll and unable to regain control. I got to the airplane and the left taileron servo was smoking and melting. I reviewed a video shot of the flight and can see the servo failing and going to a full 90 degree position on the taileron leading to the crash.

Ok why digital over analog?

It wasnt the fact that it was digital, any servo can fail.

They have lots of advantages and few disadvantages.

A cheap servo is a cheap servo, no matter whether it is digital or analog. Remember there are some great analog servos on the market and some crappy digitals.

What servo where you using? How many volts was it seeing? (bec output)

Link to servo:
http://www.ejf.com/index.php?main_pa...b74abe3eed9e0d

It was a 2S 700 Mah regualted by and Align regulator to 5.1 Volts

That shouldn't be too much voltage. Maybe you just got a bad servo. They don't look like top of the line servos but I have no experience with them.

Oh well, Im sticking with Hitec HS-65's for my EDF Jets