Steering servo acts up randomly.

[Rep732]

So bottom line ill call horizon Monday and complain. Here's the story, 1st time. Im driving around in the big construction area in my videos when all of a sudden I lose the ability to turn left. Hmm thats odd so I walk up to the truck and force the steering. Yea I know not a good idea but I said F it ill buy a new servo as im not happy this is happening. Later I take the body off and see a fairly decent stick at the bottom of the chassis that was snapped and well ok problem solved.. Round 2 . Today it did the same thing 3 times with one time of me forcing it and the other 2 by just trying with the controller. Its the stock losi servo so i know its not great but its too early for the servos to take a dump. Anyone know what tends to cause this?... and my killswitch works...it was about 250-300ft away and I lost signal it went full brake and killed the engine.

 

[Striikar]

Theres no predetermined time before a servo will start having issues. Many people have them straight out the box. Your stock servo is s known weak link,so upgrade to a better one and use the warranty replacement one as a backup.?

 

[Seandonato73]

☝? ditto.

 

[Mark Muller]

I had a similar issue, someone on here suggested adjusting the end points at the TX. It had too much travel dialed in so I reduced it to where the servo was not "buzzing" (overloaded) at extreme ends of travel. Worked perfect.

 

[evssv]

stock servos for the most part r shite???..thay may last u years .?..or not even 1x run ☹....?but the joy of buying new means u can get them replaced under warranty then sale em on as"new"?
to cover the cost of sum decent ones...hitec d840-5's?

 

[Rep732]

Called horizon and they sent me a new steering servo....ill get to a better one eventually as its just not at the top of my list of improvements

 

[evssv]

nx to a kill switch....decent servos would my 2nd upgeade imo...?.....

 

[Rep732]

Not sure about what your saying @evssv I have a kill switch?

 

[evssv]

Not sure about what your saying @evssv I have a kill switch?

i ment sum decent servos r better over sum shiney parts?

 

[Rep732]

Yea the shiny stuff pulls me in tho

 

[evssv]

Yea the shiny stuff pulls me in tho

?.....? ....as it do's to most of us on here

 

[Seandonato73]

Nah not so much shiny on my build....