It's back to the old "you get what you pay for" discussion. Now, I agree with you
that price alone doesn't mean everything, but in
general, you can figure that quality comes at a cost! No, there isn't anything wrong
with Hitec products. There are some better
products that do cost more. I own Multiplex, Airtronics and Hitec servos. All move
the surface similarly. But, I can tell you that
the MPX digitals are much stronger and more accurate than the others that I have.
Yes, they cost a bunch more, but if you are
planning on spending $1000-2000 on an unlimited sailplane with spares and tools etc.,
saving $100 just to save it doesn't make much
sense to me. If you are flying a $50 Sapphire 2M, then you probably don't want to
spend $90+ for each servo. But get a high
performance composite or molded ship, and yes it's worth it!
Finally, the less you have to spend, the better equipment you need! gv
Jill and Rick Brown wrote:
> Some think that the higher the price the better the product. Sometimes
> there is a limit to how much better something can get.
> I have heard complaints about the Airtronics 141's, the accepted
> standard flap servo.
> I know of some very competitive people that use Hitec servos. The
> designer of the Mantis uses one Hitec HS-205 servo for flap. How bad can
> they be?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > << The consensus is that those who have tried
> > alternative servos find them reliable and that hey perform as well as the
> > higher priced servos for normal unlimited use.
> >
> > The only reason to use the 'alternative' servos is price...or those so happy
> > with them would use 'best'.
> >
> > The 'best' earned their 'status' by their performance, construction,
> > materials and reptutation.
> >
> > Competition allows a format for the best to distinguish themselves.
> > Unlimited planes spend their entire lives in a competition format....thats
> > what is normal for them.
> >
> > If it were true that priced servos perform as well as the higher priced
> > servos, then there are a lot of sailplaners who feel that the 'expensive'
> > servos are different.
> >
> > Price servos work fine, compared to the servos recognized through out the
> > world as the 'best' they aren't the same.
> > Similar, alike maybe, but not the same.
> >
> > You can't use lead for gold, but you can be happy with lead :-)
> >
> > Money is hard to come by for most of us. Most of started with the 'price'
> > components and have drawers full of them today....drawers full not sailplanes
> > full.
> >
> > In the scheme of things is the difference in cost worth the difference in
> > value? If not, why do so many of the 'best, expensive' servos get sold?
> >
> > Think hard before you outfit your planes DOWN to a price, versus up to a
> > Quality.
> >
> > 'and that's all I have to say about that' :-)
> > Gordy
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