time to upgrade my servo or just replace gears?

[sharkattack99]

i was doing some jumping to day and messed up my steering servo in my savage, it is a hitech HS-645mg servo its lasted me for about a year and replaced the gears only once but my question is should i just pay the 15 bucks to get replacement gears again or should i just get a better servo higher torque and stronger gears maybe something with titanium gears or somthing? thanks for any advise.

shark

 

[sharkattack99]

sorry forgot to add this iv been looking at this one
http://www.tcscrawlers.com/Hitec-HS-7955TG-Robot-Servo-Ultra-High-Torque-p-16189.html
any thoughts?

 

[JESTUS]

I think if I was gonna go Hitec then I would do the 7950 or the 7940
I have searched before and found them both for the same price.you can look at them here:http://www.servocity.com/html/hs-7950th_servo.html

 

[JESTUS]

http://www.troybuiltmodels.com/items/HS7950TG.html here it is for 109

 

[JESTUS]

same place has the 7955 that you were looking at for 89.95 good price for that servo

 

[sharkattack99]

is there anyway i could set the voltage to 7.4v on my esc? so i could utilize that much torque?

will the hs7950 fit in the savage steering spot?

 

[JESTUS]

if you are running LiPo battires then you are already at 7.4...and the 7955 is a standard size servo so it will drop right in

 

[JESTUS]

sorry I meant 7950

 

[chimeraxp]

I run the 5955TG it's a couple years old , discontinued now , I believe looking at the specs it was replaced 7955TG ,
I really enjoy mine and would buy another if the price was right .

 

[JESTUS]

check this servo out
http://www.servodatabase.com/servo/savox/sc-1256
$77

 

[sharkattack99]

well i ordered the 7950 (of course i found a higher torque one later,lol) but anyway i was just wondering i noticed that i can't seem to find replacement parts for this servo, or I'm just not looking in or on the right web site. but what happens if you strip a gear? do you have to buy a hole new one? has anybody stripped a titanium gear? or is that the reason they don't have replacement parts cause you won't need them? although i hope i don't .

 

[chimeraxp]

I have yet to break anything on my 7955TG , and i'm not too worried about it either , I think I would have to do something rather dumb to break it , but thats just me , others may have.
but I'm not doing LiPo or 7.4 volts .