servo

Now that we are in the off season of F3F racing I thought I'd take the time to upgrade / maintain some of my birds. There has been a new 8mm thick servo from KST the HS08. I've been using these in a few ships this year. And while the spec's don't seem to indicate that there is too much...

I just bought some EMAX ES08MDII servos as replacement for the poor quality servos we get with the Freewing EPO ARF models. As is typical with me I do my research after I've made my purchase. The EMAX ES08MDII are perfect replacements for the Freewing 9 to 13 gram servo. Now my research came...

In this thread it was asked what was going on with the new family of servos from FrSky. I think they are calling this family of servo Xact. https://forum.alofthobbies.com/index.php?threads/kst-hs-08.1514/post-15164 Well six months ago there was a lot of marketing hype about these. But now I...

I'm noticing a lot of servos are starting to show up on many web sites as out of stock. I thought a lot of this might be as a result of Covid-19. But as most of these are built by high speed robotics that didn't make too much sense. I've learned that many servo manufactures are actually having...

There has been some discussion about the 4.5 gram class of servo here. https://forum.alofthobbies.com/index.php?threads/blue-bird-servos-at-aloft-hobbies.1459/ I'd like to open it up to a wider discussion inclusive of all brands. What has driven my interest in looking at the 4.5 gram class is...

I've noticed that the great X0-8 is all but out of stock. Is this to make room for the new KST HS08? Any ETA on these new servos? All the best, Konrad

Now that it looks like KST is destroying their distribution network, it is time to look for another servo brand. I’ve loved the MKS servo but their price structure didn’t make them a good value for my ships or my style of flying. Futaba doesn’t offer the range of servos I use. And historically...

I just spent the better part of a day grinding out legacy control horns from my modern composite ship. I’d like to learn why composites ships haven’t fully moved away from the classic control horn we first became familiar with way back in the days of balsa wood models? I see an opportunity to...

I didn’t read on the sales page about a version upgrade of the X08 plus being released . Can anybody tell us what has been changed with V2.0. It might have been helpful to know that the servos have been upgraded. This is particularly true if you needs matched servos such as with V-tails...

Hi, when I power up the receiver, all channels go to one extreme for a moment, and then "0" out. I would expect that there would be no servo movement at all. This is highly undesirable. Think electric retract channel among other things, getting this conflicting command. I have swapped out two...