Panther6834
I wanna be Dave
First, gotta say, your post gave me a good laugh...especially the last sentence. As my client's flight has been delayed (a few times) by over two hours, I really needed a good laugh. I've got a busy, stressful work week ahead of me, and that was a good way to start the week.No, you don't need it, but it's so nice to have. Once you try a great servo like that it's hard to go back to budget servos. I mean do we need LiPo batteries? Nope. We can go back to getting 15 minute run times out of an hour charge if we'd like...
As for "more powerful" vs "less powerful" servos, just because a servo is less powerful, that doesn't make it a 'budget' servo...equating "lower powered" to "budget" is just plain ignorant. Even the least powerful Tekin & Futaba servos cost more than the most powerful "cheap" (ie. crappy Chinese garbage) servos. While I prefer Hitec servos, I wouldn't consider the ones I have as 'budget', all their all on the higher-end, and now exactly inexpensive. Plus, I do have some Futaba servos, which cost even more.
In what I originally said, I was referring to the power output, can and nothing else. Sure, you can dial-down the power in those super-high-end servos (they are programmable, after all), but what the point in getting a servo that powerful if you're just gonna knock it down to 2/3, or even 1/2, that. Why not save a bundle of $$, get a servo that has a power output closet to what your actually going to use (or actually need), and put that saved money into other upgrades? There's a huge difference between "spending needlessly", and "shopping smartly". In shopping smartly, after a few vehicles, I'll have saved enough to build another entire kit (including electronics).
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