The official Riff-Raff thread (never ending engine thread, East/West)

[habs992000]

Please take some of the comments with a grain of salt.
The crowd in here likes to have fun , poke fun and tease.

That being said........

Hitec has had some QC issues now and again.

Their 7954 servos are generally a good servo. But we have seen them lock up on more than one occasion.
Those particular servos, if they fail. Fail very quickly. Often during set up and they never see the air.
Others have failed after 1 or a few flights. The ones that don't fail, make itthrough plane set up or the first couple flights.
Go on to perform just fine for years.
Percentage wise. Overall. I would say is actually very low based on the 10's of thousands that have been sold worldwide.

7950's and 7980's did have a known jitter issue using straight lipo. But not all of them.
Heck Jr's have jitter ed. So have some of the newer MKS servos.
Savox have never jittered on me. But gear slop does show up occasionally.

None are perfect LOL

Thanks! I am well aware of the crowd in here. I might not have posted alot but have been reading. I am also aware that everyone has their favorite brand but if one of then has been particularly bad I also want to know before getting to many of them.

I currently have 3 425bb in my lt-40 and i may have another kit on the way so just looking for some opinions. Also knowing that a servo battle could errupt.

[Bhughes]

First flight since Huckfest wow am I rusty. Figured you needed a video on the be 62 powered yappie yak.

[Pete]

First flight since Huckfest wow am I rusty. Figured you needed a video on the be 62 powered yappie yak.

Nice U 2!!! Also nice T-Shirts.

Pete

[Pete]

Peter, can't say about a flying field, but if you like watching trains then the municipal rv park downtown across the river is the one to be at....we"re in Princeton and the smell of kero is in the air

Thanks Ron, we think that will be our campground of choice, will be able to fly the micro helis on the river bank.

Pete

[tbrum]

Right on Brodie!! Congrats!

Love the shirt. So glad we got the EM on the front LOL!!

[Bhughes]

I had to do a video with the shirt on lol. Only fair I wear something from Ontario to blam my rusty flight on. As you could tell no gyro was used wind was a factor

[tbrum]

LOL! Sure looked like a good flight. Great flying!!

[Bhughes]

Gonna try to make it out flying today again. I will have the youngster with me so no videos today lol.

[reo]

I wonder if Ron is still using Kraft!

Pete

and I've always been nice to you, Peter

but yes, I know what kraft servos are, and yes I've used Kraft servos and may still have some around

[Pete]

and I've always been nice to you, Peter

but yes, I know what kraft servos are, and yes I've used Kraft servos and may still have some around

I thought I was honouring your longevity in the hobby, having breakfast in Nordegg on the way to Golden.

Pete