adxdopefish
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Last Sunday I purchased a brand new Traxxas Revo from the local hobby shop. In my second run of the machine - the run after break in - my throttle / brake servo failed. I took it to the hobby shop and the staff ordered a new one under the parts warranty.
The part did not arrive by Friday and I really wanted to run my expensive new toy again, so I did some shopping around and found a Futaba s3003 servo for $18.00.
It gave me one good hour of fun yesterday. I fired up the beast again today to do some further tuning and all of a sudden I can't accelerate again. Throttle / brake servo has once again failed.
Am I doing something wrong with these things? Am I missing something? Surely I am supposed to be able to use this machine a few times without having to replace throttle servos.
Can someone please make some suggestions as to what I could be doing wrong, and how I should be setting up my replacement servos in the Revo? I noticed that there are a lot of threads on this topic, but all this talk of analog and digital servos, servo horns, etc. has got me a little confused. Hopefully we can use this thread to assist me in overcoming my confusion.
Thanks in advance,
-Brad
I now understand what I need to do in order to change my servos. I found the Traxxas Revo servo horn kit that lets you use four other common brands of servos in the truck. This is going to come in handy as the local hobby stores only seem to stock everything EXCEPT Traxxas and Futaba.
As soon as the order arrives, obviously I will then be able to use other brands of available servos, including higher quality units.
My remaining concern now is that I am stressing the servos out by exerting them harder and further than the parts the connect to allow them to move. What can I do about this? How do you guys stop your servos from being destroyed constantly?
The part did not arrive by Friday and I really wanted to run my expensive new toy again, so I did some shopping around and found a Futaba s3003 servo for $18.00.
It gave me one good hour of fun yesterday. I fired up the beast again today to do some further tuning and all of a sudden I can't accelerate again. Throttle / brake servo has once again failed.
Am I doing something wrong with these things? Am I missing something? Surely I am supposed to be able to use this machine a few times without having to replace throttle servos.
Can someone please make some suggestions as to what I could be doing wrong, and how I should be setting up my replacement servos in the Revo? I noticed that there are a lot of threads on this topic, but all this talk of analog and digital servos, servo horns, etc. has got me a little confused. Hopefully we can use this thread to assist me in overcoming my confusion.
Thanks in advance,
-Brad
I now understand what I need to do in order to change my servos. I found the Traxxas Revo servo horn kit that lets you use four other common brands of servos in the truck. This is going to come in handy as the local hobby stores only seem to stock everything EXCEPT Traxxas and Futaba.
As soon as the order arrives, obviously I will then be able to use other brands of available servos, including higher quality units.
My remaining concern now is that I am stressing the servos out by exerting them harder and further than the parts the connect to allow them to move. What can I do about this? How do you guys stop your servos from being destroyed constantly?
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