Excessive battery draw on MT when steering

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G-Man

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I have had my MT for a few months now and have replaced the throttle servo due to it failing with a hitec. I am now experiencing the rx battery going low at 1/2-3/4 tank making my tx warn me when steering only. The voltage will be 6.11v turn the steering and it drops to 4.2v. I used to get almost two tanks out of the rx battery. I have a brand new rx battery that I tried and it tuckered out about the same time. So I am guessing the steering servos are going out the door. Maybe drawing too many amps to run? Is this a normal when they go bad? Thanks
 
Well I'm pretty sure it is the right steering servo that is bad. Any input on which servos to upgrade to? I have a hitec throttle servo that I like. Looking for a direct fit that doesn't use too much power to operate.
 
get a glitch buster....really helped for me... Racers Edge 2474 Glitch Buster Power Capacitor
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Well the glitch buster worked!! Thanks for the tip!! I installed 2 hitec steering servos and it still had voltage drop issues but it at least steered now, I installed the glitch buster and now the voltage drop issue is gone. I can now get 2 tanks from 1 rx charge again. Thanks Again
 
Interested in this product, I have a thread on here titled "steering glitches" not far below this one. I did some research on this product, curious if this would be a fix for my situation. The steering servos will twitch even when not steering. It will be fine for about 10 minutes into a fresh charge on the both the tx and rx batteries. Then they will just go into an uncontrolled twitch.
 
307_Proud said:
Interested in this product, I have a thread on here titled "steering glitches" not far below this one. I did some research on this product, curious if this would be a fix for my situation. The steering servos will twitch even when not steering. It will be fine for about 10 minutes into a fresh charge on the both the tx and rx batteries. Then they will just go into an uncontrolled twitch.
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It's worth a try. What servo set up you using?
 
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