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What is shortest low profile servo available?

Ben.C

The KO 2413 or the Futaba 9550. If you're looking at touring application...

rampal

iTrader: (4)

both Futaba s9550 and KO Propo PDS-2413 are low profile, with similar sizes


this is for the S9550


hope it helps!
cheers,

BSchorr

iTrader: (101)

yup, those are teh only ones avaible, the 9550 is liek $80 bucks! cant beat that, its kinda on the low torque and speed that i like, i usualy transfer my servo, rx, and qc2 to my offroad stuff, and i like the fastness for offroad, atleast .06-.08 where the 9550 is .10

Juan Aveytia

Speeds not everything. It actually screws up alot of peoples cars, when it becomes to twitchy from the fast responce. Had a chance to use both and the futaba just feels smoother to me. Don't get caught up with speed.

tc3team

Ive had no issues with my s9550, its a nice piece of kit for the money

Marcos.J

iTrader: (239)

i have the 9550 in all my touring cars, great servo

Chemical X

iTrader: (18)

I've been having an issue with a Futaba 9550 servo introducing interference and misc glitches. It really gets "nervous" when my transponder is mounted near it. Anyone else having this issue?

If I replace the 9550 with a KO-2343 servo (not the low profile one) I don't have any glitches or radio interference, however, the KO-2343 seems to draw more power and you can see the LED on the transponder really dim when turning the steering servo. This has resulted in missed laps. I'm curious if anyone else has had similar issues.

- Tom

Marcos.J

iTrader: (239)

not here i mount my personal transponders on top of the servo with no problems at all

Kevin K

iTrader: (32)

I had this issue when I had a Pro-4 and had to take it off my 9550....but now I dont with my MI2ec. There is one track that my personal will not pick up when its on top of the servo....so I just mount it on the chassis now no more problems.

Jam-ehz

iTrader: (6)

When I had my transponder mounted on the servo it messed up the steering when driving in certain spots on the track. Maybe a certain mixture of different signals just enough to make it wonky..

Granted, it was right beside the receiver too, but I had to place it as far away as possible to the front of the car. No problems since.

When I had my Quantum 2 I had to put a cap into the receiver to keep it from losing laps and glitching when accelerating, and it was just a regular analog plastic-geared servo! I had since dumped it for a GTX and a Keyence, no issues with either. I do keep a capacitor in the receiver for my 1/12th scale though..

KO servos (esp. digital) really take a lot more current than others, you'll want a cap for those too.

Chemical X

iTrader: (18)

Thanks for the feedback.

I am using a Quantum 2 esc and was thinking about adding in a capacitor to see if that would help on the servo's power draw. What capacitor are you using? The one from the QC2 Worlds Kit?

Sean T Guy

I have used both the Futaba and KO low profile servo's. Actuall performance difference is none that you would notice. The only reason I changed to the KO is that I read that whilst running a QC2 and Spektrum there was glitch problems especially on rubber tyres on carpet. I used to get a glitch maybe every 10 races which in the end wound me up.
I was so upset that I also bought the twister 2.1 and installed both. Appx 100 races later I have had no glitches and gone faster

Arjen

Does someone know if the different type of servos has an influence on the electric energy they use.

For example is the current draw of an KO 2413(low profile) lower then the current draw of the KO 2343 servo(digital fet).

Arjen

nnick

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Would you suggest the use of such servo for off road??

Nick