Damn I broke a servo!!

[Benji]

Hey guys today I was flying my yak 54 from qq the 50cc one and I entered to a rolling loop when a servo cracked now it is not working it was the aileron servo, so I had to land really fast, I was kinda scared, the servos that I have on ailerons are hitec hs 645 mg I think I might go for some better jr servos, have you ever had these problem with a plane?

[TonyThomasian]

On my 30% yak, i put hitec karbonite gears on the ailerons and on the first 2minutes of the flight they got stripped. (i knew karbonite gears arent good for giant scale, but i used them anyways.) So one of the servos broke the gear off w/ the arm, and so i had to land with one aileron while the other aileron was flopping around! I got it down safely.

[Benji]

Yeah thats what happened to me today!! was bad.

[king160woody]

i did this with a foamy once haah i landed safely

[Neogenesis]

The Hitec 645MG is usually a pretty bullet proof servo. How old was it? Approx # of flight? Involved in any hard knocks? It's also possible that you got a bad one. There is always a human link in assembly somewhere.......and that opens the possibility for failures. I would say try another.....chances are you won't have any problems with them.

FYI....I've been flying the 5645 in my 33% Yak......I believe it is the same geartrain as the 645MG....just digital controls. They have held up good so far. Also have mnay other Hitec's in all my planes......and have never had a problem that wasn't induced by the user "Me". That being wrecks....a control surface that took a hard wack, or a multitude of other things.


Neo

[harv]

i knew them hitecs were no good news. i have 4 of them servos, only using one. and t is metal gears(were yours metal gears)?

[Edge 540]

WOW If you truly had enough experience to say that "them hitecs were no good news" you would already know that the 645 was MG.

[Neogenesis]

	Quote: Originally Posted by harv
	i knew them hitecs were no good news.

ROFL.........



Neo

[50%plane]

It's easy, just duct tape the servo together and you'll never have that trouble again.

[Neogenesis]

In all reality though, all servo mfg's have a bad servo come through here and there. It's not until there are many many reported failures that I would sign off on not using a mfg. I personally won't use anything but Hitec.....but that's mostly becasue I hate having to use a matchbox to match up servo's. It's much easier to program them.




Neo

[Benji]

Yeah guys you are right, the servo was old I think, it has like 10 months working, so I should happend, may be with some others, any way I mught change them for something better and let those ones for smaller planes.

[TonyThomasian]

Hitec has the best customer support as far as repairs (imo). I send in a servo to be checked out and they fixed it, and send it back for free in 1 week. Also Hitec servos are really good (imo). I like JR 8611 servos, but after trying the Hitec 5955 servos, I think i will go with the hitec's on my next giant scale. There gears are much stronger than 8611 servos. They last longer than 100 flights too.

	Quote: Originally Posted by harv
	i knew them hitecs were no good news.