I've had nothing but great success with Hitech digitals. My gut feel: something in the wiring or elsewhere is creating your problems. Were it the servos, you'd be hearing the same complaints from lots of other fliers.
Regards, Steve >From: "Albert E. Wedworth" >Date: Thu Mar 03 10:44:30 CST 2005 >To: Soaring@airage.com >Subject: [RCSE] Hitec Digi Servo burn out! Again... > Hi All Al Here we go again... So I sent the 4 burned out servos? to Hitec for replacement, 3. HS 5125 MG? & 1. HS 5245 MG Two? 1/2?weeks later. I get them back Monday this week and...... Guess what They come back ?in a Nice Plastic Blue Box with stickers even.. What happened to the cardboard boxes?? Were these old servos I got??? Did Hitec upgrade the servos and the boxes? Or just the boxes? So.... I installed all the Returned servos in the Ventus.. Checked the radio and adj all throws down to 100% so not to over drive the servo to death .. ? Oh"? by the way I also bought one of those Battery Voltage reducers? from Battery?America a VR 5.4?Voltage Regulator. Well..... When using the?VR 5.4?you can't charge the battery when this device is installed.. Bummer.. don"t like that! ? Also when I went to set up the plane AGAIN ?I found the battery dead... Like the VR 5.4 sucked the battery down.. Pulled the VR 5.4 off charged the battery and off I go.. AGAIN! ? ? Plugged in one wing at a time and set up so not to move the servos to much or over drive them.. ? Moved to the other wing and set it up Wow!? Everything is working great.. I'm impressed.. ? So I'm get out my throw meter and set all of my surfaces to factory recommended settings All of a sudden I here a weird sound from left my tip servo Gurrrrr..... as the servo is moving Holly Sh## Lost that one.... Then as I look over to the right wing panel I see the flap?locked all the way in the down position and that funny??I Let the factory smoke out smell?.? "Oh Sh## " ? Wow! I'm getting really worried about flying this plane with all the servos burning out. ? Any suggestions??? With out spending any more money! ? Sorry Gordy, I can't afford Volz servos any more, There way to expensive! ( I have Volz Wing Maxx?on the Aileron servos of the Ventus with no problems) Maybe the Hitec servo are angry that I have Volz servos in the Ventus at all.. Could this be??? Thanks Al ? ? >I'm building a HM Ventus 2ax 5 m model sailplane. >I've used Hitec digi servos thought. >HS-5245MG digi Mini?& HS 5125 MG Digi thin wing servos. >What I've noticed is they burn out very easily.. >What's up !!!! >I haven't gotten my plane in the air yet and?I've burned up 5 >of the servos already!!!!! ? >What burned out so far... >1. rudder servo; on a pull pull system HS-5245 MG Digi >( to tight ) my fault... Non Digi now. >1.Tip aileron HS-5245 MG Digi servo.? >2. Flap servos HS-5125 Thin Wing Digi servo. >1. Spoiler servo HS-5245 MG Digi servo. >None of my surface's are tight! >5?cell battery pack. ? >Should I be concerned??? >Is this normal??? >Could it be too much throw? ? ? Cheers AL ? ? ? ? Albert E. Wedworth ( AL ) <br/>ERA? Capshaw? Realestate<br/>REALTOR- ASSOCIATE<br/>Cell? 530-228-9445<br/>Fax 530-343-1715 Albert E. Wedworth ( AL ) <br/>ERA? Capshaw? Realestate<br/>REALTOR- ASSOCIATE<br/>Cell? 530-228-9445<br/>Fax 530-343-1715 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
