es100/s3003/ts-53 servo question
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es100/s3003/ts-53 servo question
es100/s3003/ts-53 are these the same servo with a different label? http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0093p?&C=MAA
because i have had 3 es100 servo's fail on me in the past week. two were on the throttle and one was on the aileron . the weird thing is that i have been useing these servo's from the getgo when i first started nitro planes. my spad trainer has es100 all around and while fixing the engine the throttle servo broke. this servo was about a year old.
i thought that was rather strange seeing as the aileron/rudder/elevator have the same servo and those seem to be working just fine. i thought that was just a rare occurance.
until today when i had two of them fail on me while at the field. one on my mojo .40 (throttle) and one on my yak54 (aileron).
in the failed servo's the electronics seem to be fine its the motor thats acting strange, they either dont work at all or produce very little torque and stall half the time, when appart you can wiggle the motor but its not the solder connections that are moving.
the servo's are setup fine, they arnt binding/ect.
what is going on here? are the vibrations ripping the motor appart?.
this really bothers me because i have those servo's EVERYWHERE, almost all of my planes have at least one es100 servo in them.
hobbico has already replaced one es100, ill tell them about the other 2 and see what they will do. grrrrrrrr why are these failing? has anyone else had a problem with them?
is their anywhere where i can buy just a servo motor?
because i have had 3 es100 servo's fail on me in the past week. two were on the throttle and one was on the aileron . the weird thing is that i have been useing these servo's from the getgo when i first started nitro planes. my spad trainer has es100 all around and while fixing the engine the throttle servo broke. this servo was about a year old.
i thought that was rather strange seeing as the aileron/rudder/elevator have the same servo and those seem to be working just fine. i thought that was just a rare occurance.
until today when i had two of them fail on me while at the field. one on my mojo .40 (throttle) and one on my yak54 (aileron).
in the failed servo's the electronics seem to be fine its the motor thats acting strange, they either dont work at all or produce very little torque and stall half the time, when appart you can wiggle the motor but its not the solder connections that are moving.
the servo's are setup fine, they arnt binding/ect.
what is going on here? are the vibrations ripping the motor appart?.
this really bothers me because i have those servo's EVERYWHERE, almost all of my planes have at least one es100 servo in them.
hobbico has already replaced one es100, ill tell them about the other 2 and see what they will do. grrrrrrrr why are these failing? has anyone else had a problem with them?
is their anywhere where i can buy just a servo motor?
