I need a quality servo
 

Hello,

I just finished building my Stadium Truck RC10T6.1 and it will be my first time racing. I will be racing 17.5 stock and its an indoor high bite clay track. My budget is $100 - $150. Can I get some recommendations for a good quality servo that is backed up with good customer service.

Thank you:D

savox 1258tg is a longtime durable and trusted servo. The replacement gears are easy to get and I've never done anything with customer service yet so I don't know about that.

I agree with the Savox 1258TG recommendation. I've been running one in my 4wd buggy for a few years now and it has performed flawlessly. Bang for buck you can't beat them

You can go expensive if you want to. However my vote is for the savox 1258tg. I have one still going strong after 8 years of use and I have not done any maintenance to it during that time.

I'll check out the Savox and MKS stuff. I'm using the Futaba 4PL radio so i'm not sure that CB700 will work for me and it's over my price range.

Thanks everyone for your recommendations!

When I look at the Savox on Amain it has a warning that it can cause "Brown Outs." If i'm running a Futaba reciever and a Gen 1 Tekin RS is this still an issue?

Thanks

Brown outs are a problem that most radios have resolved over the last few years. I don't believe you will have any issues.

While Savox USA provides excellent customer service when products are under warranty, I have been burned without any after-warranty support when I fried a servo due to a faulty BEC sending full 4S power to the servo. I requested an RMA to get the servo repaired but they refused to give me an RMA without buying another servo first, they told me to send in the receipt with the bad servo and then they would replace it under the warranty for the new servo. This whole deal seemed shady, but I complied with their demand and roughly 6 weeks after I shipped them my RMA, they sent the bad servo back and denied my warranty claim because I didn't purchase from an authorized distributor in the USA. I went round and round several times with the Savox USA rep over the phone how they never said anything about where I needed to buy the servo from, things started getting nasty when I asked them to help me contact Savox Global because my request from Global for an RMA went nowhere. I felt that I was left high and dry with no support and was tricked into buying a second servo.

This would be the last Savox product I would purchase.

Lessons Learned:
1) Be sure to pay more and verify you buy from an authorized channel if you want support
2) Read the fine print before you make a purchase, most brands of servos will not warranty stripped gears and won't offer any service after warranty has expired.
3) Don't trust anything anyone tells you over the phone, they will not stand behind their word and give ambiguous instructions.

After this experience, I have tried many other brands of servos, some will at least sell you a refurbished servo if they can't repair it, had this happen with Radiopost once.

Before selecting your next brand of servo, I would visit their customer support page on their website... look for some sort of replacement fee schedule for any kind of service repair work outside of warranty... otherwise expect your servo to be disposable when the warranty expires.

If memory serves, I believe it was Bill Delong that told me about the servos. Great specs for the money.

https://flightcomp.com/collections/standard-servos

Thanks for the thought but I think it was Frewster on the EcoPower thread:
https://www.rctech.net/forum/radio-e...l-servo-2.html

He recently started a new thread here, that BLS-29A looks very promising!
https://www.rctech.net/forum/radio-e...ns-review.html

Another option would be the Tekin programmable servos:

https://www.teamtekin.com/servos.html

Memory is not serving as well as it once did. LOL! You are correct Bill. They do look promising.