Steering Servo Failures Using MMP
 

Just wondering if it is just my dumb luck or if anyone else is experiencing this problem. Had a top of the line Hitec servo I had been running for maybe half a race season. Suddenly, it goes haywire. Twitching and causing the esc to and receiver to lose connection with the transmitter. Tried a new receiver, and finally diagnosed it as bad servo. So bought a new one.

Now a year or so later, I am hooking up my MMP esc in my scale crawler, which I just put a brand new $90 Hobbico titanium gear, high torque servo. Worked fine...for about 5 minutes. Then suddenly servo starts acting a little haywire, then over the next minute or so while turning the esc off and on and checking wire connections, it starts getting worse and worse until it gets to the point that if I turn it on, everything in the car acts like its having a siezure. Unplug the servo, all twitching stops and receiver and esc come back online. WTF? Am I crazy to think my Mamba Max Pro esc had something to do with it, or am I just that unlucky that a new perfectly functioning servo goes completely haywire before my very eyes?

could be wrong but cant see the esc being the cause, maybe just unlucky with the new servo.

use a spectrum voltage protector, all the troubles will be over, they are only 4.99 at tower

Castle controllers have been having repeated BEC failures when used with current hungry servos. If the BEC is going crazy it can take out a perfectly fine servo. I cant say with confidence that this is your problem, but it is a problem.

I have three SC trucks that use an MMP in conjunction with a DS1015 servo and one truck that uses a Sidewinder SCT ESC and a Savox 1268. All work just fine.