Originally Posted by
bobbyc1127
I am not going to throw the former team driver's name out there but what I will say is I have noticed the the current R/C Pro National Champion Mike Battaile who once was a strong Hitec supporter has now switched to Savox. And I was having issues with the Hitec 7954 line. Am I saying Hitecs are Crap if you look back you never once will see me say that. I recall saying that because of the constant failures I had I decided to try a different brand and have not looked back. Another driver that has dropped Hitec servos is a well known driver in Texas and as far as I know he is not running Hitec at this moment is Gary Haggard.
I never once started throwing out there that Hitecs are crap and substandard built. As a matter of fact in my REVO Platinum which I took 5th in the final year of the class in Texas I am running the same 645 servo I put in it right after I got it. I guess to clear it up and to make sure certain people here understand it clearly...I run Savox servos because I have yet to have ANY glitches or issues out of the servos. I run the HI Voltage servos in my MBX 6T and they have plenty of torque for what I want them to do. As of this moment my first year of running open/expert classes I am currently in 10th place in Texas. Take it for what you want. But I know for me as a consumer and the OVER 10 yrs I have been in the hobby and the 7 yrs I have been racing up until I switched from ACE 1015 to the Hitec 7954 I never had a servo issue and it was always on the steering.
In closeing for ME Savox servos are holding up well and until I start having the issues with them I had with the Hitecs I will stay where I am.
OK, first off you need to REREAD what YOU wrote and edit some of it because some of it doesnt really make much sense.......
Second, you originally mentioned EVERYBODY at a specified race was having their Hitec servo's fail left and right, cursing etc......still havent given much if any details here......
Third, you still have yet to mention even why or what the symptoms were of the "failed" servo(or should I say servos, since one after another failed?).
And not just any servo but the 7954/55 model which has been known as Hitecs most durable servo.
Now ALL electronics fail, and a 0% defect rate just doesn't exist, but plain and simple what your stating I think is just a bit over the top: You had multiple servos fail, everybody else that used Hitecs at the race did too?
You still didnt explain why you needed someone else to troubleshoot your steering/servo issue? ANd your in "expert" class? LOL! Sorry, things here don't add up.
If you knew about electronics, construction/parts quality etc. and broke down a Hitec 7954 and compared it to say a 1268 Savox, you would immedietly come to the conclusion that the Hitec servo is just built better with more robust parts and assembled with much tighter tolerances and care.