3gx kills hs-65 servo,s warning

[jasoncook]

Hi all just finished fitting the head to my beam hooked up the 3gx unit to the servo,s powered it up put it into DIR mode and the servoes moved slowly then stopped . Strange I thought So I went through the setup again and again the tail was ok but nothing on the cyclic. Then I plugged my servo tester in and checked 3 x dead Hitec 65 servoes !!! not happy so I will now have to get some digital servo,s aparantly HS-65,s are analoge and flybarsystems dont like them ???

[Andy from Sandy]

And that is because if you read the blurb Align tell you to only use digital servos with the 3GX.

Whether the FBL controller likes analogue is down to whether or not you can change the frame rate. The beast x and v-bar certainly have a setting to allow the use of analogue servos.

[acwman]

yup.. both aligns 3g and 3gx is for use with digital servos only. Hitec digitals of the HS65 is the HS5065..

[Lynx.1677]

BeastX is fine with Analogue servo's.

[Zeeflyboy]

as above, comes down to whether or not you can adjust the frame rate...

Beast X, SK720, Vbar etc all have this ability, the 3GX does not.

[jasoncook]

I have a beast 7200 on its way and thought i would just give a 3gx unit a go to see if they are any good on a 450. I only plugged in the unit to get into the soft ware screen, I was really surprised how fast they died .

[Andy from Sandy]

I won't pretend to know how they actually work but the analogue servo can be told what to do about 60 times a second. The 3GX would of been telling the servo about 250 times a second. This I suspect made the electronics get very hot.