People often ask "will this servo work for this car"? I thought I knew the answer but I'm not sure.
Torque - Seems to me that if a steering servo has enough torque to disengage the servo saver, it is strong enough. I just ran a test on my car and a 90oz servo is enough to disengage the servo saver with the servo saver set to the tightness that the instruction call for. Why then do I see so many drivers using servos with 200oz or greater? Do they run the sevo saver much tighter?
Speed - I never saw a reason to get a servo that was faster than my hand. I ran a couple "tests"; I moved my steering wheel from left to right to left 5 times(10 direction changes) while timming it. It took nearly 1.5 seconds. That suggests that a servo faster than 0.15s is faster than I can move my hand. I'm guessing that with adrenaline flowing in my vanes I'd be a little quicker, especially on short/quick corrections. I know that a 0.15s servo is quite slow and all my servos are in the 0.10s range.
What do you guys think? I know some of you have done servo testing, what did you find? Do we really "need" the new breed of super servo or is it marketing hype?
Thanks for your input.