S3152 early failure?

[topher]

Has anyone got any comments on the 3152 servos? I have them on throttle, pitch, cyclic and alerion on my raptor 50.

The pitch servo has failed - it moves fine with no resistance on it but refuses to move when a litte force is applied and the stick wiggled! I have plugged servo into another channel and it is the same, tried a new servo in the pitch channel and that is fine so it is deffo the servo. Only concern is tht these havent had loads of use and are only 6 months old so to have one fail is a little bit concerning.

Any experiences / advice welcome!

Regards

Chris

[Planehazza]

I used to have them on my 600N when I was learning to hover and do circuits, but quickly found them to be too slow. I replaced them with DS610s and kept them as throttle servos.

[Steve]

The Raptor is a mechanically mixed design so you have one servo doing all the collective work. On a CCPM machine, this load is shared by all three servos. Depending on your flying style and skill level, this might be asking a bit much of a budget servo. It could be simply worn out.

[jwatts007]

For the pitch servo you would be well advised to use a better servo with more torque, check that your links are not tight on the balls also.........

[terryk2000]

I used to have them on my 600N when I was learning to hover and do circuits, but quickly found them to be too slow. I replaced them with DS610s and kept them as throttle servos.

I have to agree with Harry I have done exactly the same with my raptor 50 v2. They are ok as throttle servos. But then again i replaced a 3152 after it gave out with a DS620 on the throttle

[Mark_T]

As per the other posts, I'd have no worries about using them anywhere on your 50 except the pitch.

You really do need something stronger there.

[Mike W]

Nothing up with 3152's .. I still fly them on one of my machines ... And you can do 3d with 3152's as well ... But like the others have said I would change the pitch one on a Raptor to something MG and with more torque as it will wear quickly as you got just one servo doing that job

[topher]

thanks all, any advice on what to get, DS610 seems to crop up a lot - I do not do full 3d but do throw it around quite a lot