Hi Michael
Al
No, I didn't measure the voltage.
I did work all my surfaces by hand till they were moving freely.
I was using a 6 volt pack in the Ventus and I still am.
All my problems went away when I changed over to analog servos.
One thing I did notice when using Digitals were the servo were getting hot
inside the wings that you could feel thru the wing skin.
I diden't like that....
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Lachowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <soaring@airage.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] What are you doing to kill 5125/168 servos?
Did he ever measure the current draw on his model. If you have binding
surfaces, you are going to be pumping a lot of current through the servos
constantly. A 6-servo model at idle should be under 100 ma total.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Last night Cal Posthuma and I were discussing the situation with the
smaller digital servos. We've
never had problems with them however, one of our fellow flyers did. He
was using a larger battey
pack, I think it was a 6 volt, to get more zip out of the contol surfaces
and burned out some
servos. We have been using the standard 4.8 volt with no problems.
Dennis Hoyle
WMSS
Treasurer / Sec / Web Geek
www.rcsoaring.org
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