MG995 servo review

[MetalMan]

I didn't have such good luck with them. One of them was the steering servo in my Savage, and after a while it REALLY slowed down (like .5sec transit time). The other was in my 2.2 rock crawler, and one of its gears stripped. Now I won't buy anything less than quality, IE Hitec 5955TG in my crawler, no new servo (yet) in my Savage, and my other vehicles use Airtronics 359 and 357 servos.

[lincpimp]

Sounds like the quality is all over the place, but what can you expect for 14 bucks! I bought two more from another seller, 10 bucks each with shipping. We will see how they do. I will use them as brake servos, I think.

[othello]

No luck with them for me either. I ordered them for a buggy project but used 2 of them in my 11lb truggy. Each of them lasted no longer than 20 runs.



The red arrows shows where the failure started. On the first one 2 gears came apart. And on the second one 2 gears stripped.

Aside of the failure they are a bit slow, seem to be lacking power for Truggys or Mts. Mine also got slower with time and did show the same centering problem.

I would not recommend them in truggys or MTs when used for heavy bashing. When used on a track they might hold up longer. In my buggy they had enough power (still a bit on the slow side) and would have survived longer.

I will now try a Hitec HS-5985MG which features a case top with two brass axial bushing. A Hitec 5955TG might be a better choice though.