Upgrading Gyro + tail servo question.

[RookieRC]

Hi all i want to upgrade my gyro to a spartan and put a digital servo on the tail, but i have been told i need to upgrade all the servo's to digital, is this true?

Many thanks.
Jamie

[sacko]

No.

[Supercaptaincrash]

save your money for a 600 jamie! the level your at now and just learning to hover and pottering about the set up you have now is just fine !even look at getting a couple of other batteries instead!

[Smoothound]

Makes you wonder who the hell gives out some of this "advice"

[3dx]

Experts- with the emphasis on ex!!!

[RookieRC]

save your money for a 600 jamie! the level your at now and just learning to hover and pottering about the set up you have now is just fine !even look at getting a couple of other batteries instead!

Good idea buddy, i am saving for a carry case atm, but as soon as i have that i'll look into more batteries.

Smoothound, 3dx it was actually a model shop (i wont name or shame), you never know who to believe these days do you

[alex]

Good idea buddy, i am saving for a carry case atm, but as soon as i have that i'll look into more batteries.

Smoothound, 3dx it was actually a model shop (i wont name or shame), you never know who to believe these days do you

Carry case does nothing for your flying Batteries give you time and fun- easy choice imo, unless you have to cart your heli around on public transport.

If you take the heli by car, make a simple thick plywoord base you can fix it to in the boot. Costs almost nothing and stops any transport damage.

[Rotorhead]

Makes you wonder who the hell gives out some of this "advice"

Some people like to think they've got the experience to back up what ever rubbish they're spewing, its annoying to see it happen, its the last thing someone relatively new to the hobby needs.

What you'll usually find out is that they'll claim to have many years in the hobby or something but then you find out it was mostly just flying planes and are only new/newish to helis themselves, or they tried helis once a long time ago but then gave it up for a decade and pretend that represents 10 years of experience with helis.

[Al M]

I completely agree with what was said on this thread.. my Raptor has a pretty basic gyro and tail servo set up - the model shop said 'Oh no you want an all singing all dancing gyro and tail servo set'. The guys at the club said - ' Well you will want that eventually, what you have is fine for now while you are learning'

Now I seek advice at the club and on the forums and do my research before I have to visit a model shop. Infact, doing my research has probably saved me visits to the model shop!!

[zoombolt]

A shop telling you that you need to upgrade all servo's simply due to changing your gyro is shameful.

They clearly, simply want to make more money out of you & make you pay for your learning curve.

[Planehazza]

While it is often good to buy good from the start, to help avoid the whole "buy cheap buy twice" thing, it is not at all necessary. Telling you to get digital servos on the cyclic because you're changing gyro/tail servo is just wrong - he either doesn't know what he's talking about (why does he run a model shop then?) or is blatently just trying to milk what he can out of you.

[Supercaptaincrash]

which shop was it jamie? local to us? pm me mate

[RookieRC]

Sent you a pm buddy.

I think i'll stick with the basic setup for now.....then in march get the Trex 500 ESP 3G, looks awesome...does anyone know if i can use a DX6i for that heli?

Thanks for all ur replies, as always you are a very helpful bunch.

[Supercaptaincrash]

got the pm jamie! the dx6i will be ok for the 500!