Many thanks for doing all of this servo testing. It will help a lot of people to choose their servos for various purposes in the future, not just for Rock Crawler Steering, but even for general purpose servos. Many thanks once again, stay safe and have fun, Joe
Thank you for this video. Not only were the test results interesting and helpful, I learned a lot about BEC, amperage, and I feel more confident making a purchase. I’m new to the hobby and this really helped a lot.
I listened to your explanation carefully, this is valuable information for me, we should not be easily fooled by the list listed on the servo label, so that we can carefully sort out which servo is good and cheap and of good quality even though we are a little deceived by the specifications. thank you very much for this explanation.
I have the spt 5435 and it only pulls 25 kgs ,it is very well made though with no slop gears .I also have the Power hd lf 20s and they are pulling 26lbs on 1" arm which equates to 30kgs per cm from memory. I think they are very impressive
Fabulous, Don! Will be perfect if you have a savox servo as a bench mark to compare, so that we can know how good a medium price range product is better than these. Anyway, appreciate your efforts to made this informative video!
Yes, correct! Just finished crawling and checked. It’s the ds3225ssg, sold by annimos on amazon. $35 usd delivered. I’ve been around long enough to remember paying $300+ for servos of similar spec & construction....so life is good😎
@@ruftime I paid only 13 or 14 bucks for it at BG last year when it was new, but then they checked they had made a mistake and the 3225MG is sold for this price, the 3225SG for 20+ now. Made a video about this "bargain servo" last year. However: Well worth the 20 - 30 bucks, a real bargain.
Hmmm... hard to day. One of the strongest, but maybe even a bigger one than those here. Since I do not have an XMaxx and no 1/5 basher, I cannot say for sure, sorry.
Ist das ein Test für Crawler-Servos? Ich suche nach starken/schnellen Servos für meinen E-Revo 2.0...eignen sich die getesteten Servos auch für solch einen Basher?
@@donaldsneffe Warst Du nicht gerade von den JX total enttäuscht? Ich hab Dein Video übrigens in 3 Foren gepostet damit Du mal mehr Clicks bekommst.....so ein wichtiges Dokument. Danke an dieser Stelle.
@@donaldsneffe Hmmm..25usd, das wäre eventuell das EcoBoost noch besser...das ist ultraschnell. Weiß jetzt nicht auswendig ob Du es auch in deinem Test hattest. Glaub aber nicht: ua-cam.com/video/O2CtAO_srGY/v-deo.html
@@donaldsneffe Thanks! These two are discontinued or I can’t find them, how about what servo would you pick for a 3s arrma Typhon 1/8 buggy with an added gyro? I’m pretty experienced, have had a tmaxx 3.3 for 10+ years, a plethora of planes, a bunch of cheap rcs and stuff, now I’m wanting a really precise fast servo that will work well with my gyro and stuff, but looking to stay under $50. Thanks!
@@travispratt6327 It is a pity that many of those China servos are not available anymore, and there are tons and tons of new ones released nearly every week. It is impossible to keep an overview and even more impossible to buy and test those all. I do not have any experience with buggys, do not have one, never had one, only crawler, Mini-Z, helis, planes... ok, I DO have the Mini-Z buggy, but that's a different story ;-) I really like the URUAV WP26, have two of those (but actually BG does not ship it to my country anymore). Full metal, rather fast, very well built, HV, ... guess it should also be suitable for a buggy. The 50 $ price class is a totally other class... you will find tons of servos, but I cannot give any recommendation, sorry ;-)
@@donaldsneffe Cool np, I have a crawler as well and been through maybe 5 or so servos on it, the best so far is the DS3218 PRO, have you had any experience with this one and know of any that are faster? It’s under $20 and outperforms all my other servos in torque and speed, including the normal ds3218, traxxas stock servos, arrma stock servos and old futaba servos I have. Do you at least know of anything that’s faster than the ds3218 pro? That’s what I’m leaning towards but kinda would like to try something different. Thanks again for the replies!
@@donaldsneffe Oh another thing I don’t like about the DS3218 and similar designs are they’re not really waterproof, I like snow and mud and water cause I live in very wet New England, so if you know of one that at least matches it but has an actual ipx rating that’d be cool too 😎
Hi, it does not. I measured 22.9, 22.4 and 21.4 kg-cm on 6 V, and 23.3, 22.9 and 22.4 kg-cm on 7.4 Volt. However, I did already test a ton of servos and found the difference between 6 V and 7.4 V often surprisingly small. Maybe you have mixed up something and mean the "percent of factory specifications" part? On 6 V it showed 95.3% of factory specifications, on 7.4 V 91.5% - both very good results.
@@donaldsneffe i would get a slow motion camera, pointed at servo, a fast transmitter and a stop watch.. have all 3 in view and then record the time it takes for a 60 degree turn from movement of the transmitter
@@joshgrahamnz ... it is not that easy setup camera etc... We thought of highspeed cameras, but 100 fps is not enough and light is always a problem (I use sometimes really good and super expensive highspeed cameras at work). Furthermore in this setup I do not use a transmitter, but a servo tester... would have to setup a transmitter on 2 pos-switch... All this is a ton of work and the results won't be good. Still would be cool - but very difficult to do at home at my hobby work bench. One would have to do this in a lab... but RC is just my hobby ;-)
@@donaldsneffe What you could actually do is attach a long lightweight stick to the end of each servo and compare them all, this way it would be easier to see the difference in speed
Eigentlich ganz gut gemeint, doch immer den Daumen auf der Bezeichnung , und oben der Aufkleber , wie soll man dann die Servos erkennen, schwarz sind die doch ALLE !! SChade, schade....
Yeah the ds 3218 servo is crap it was in my rustler for a year and already dying barely can center back itself fucked up the TSM system i highly recommend to my enemies :,D
Your methodology is VERY FLAWED. So sad as you put so much hard work into this and this could have been an excellent video, but unfortunately you don't seem to have a basic understanding of how torque works. Therefore, most of your readings are flawed... Your horn is correctly vertical on some of the servos at full load, and those readings are correct. But others are at an angle anything between vertical to 45 degrees. And an angle at 45 degrees will read TWICE the force compared to perfectly vertical horn if, as you do your testing in a linearly fashion. So, in short: if a 45-degree horn reads 20kg, it equals to 20kg/HALF cm which equals to 10kg/cm. So, some of your readings are off by a factor 200%.
Thanks for making this video !!! It's a minefield buying cheap servos and you've cleared it up ! Thabksyo🎉
Many thanks for doing all of this servo testing. It will help a lot of people to choose their servos for various purposes in the future, not just for Rock Crawler Steering, but even for general purpose servos.
Many thanks once again, stay safe and have fun,
Joe
Thank you for this video. Not only were the test results interesting and helpful, I learned a lot about BEC, amperage, and I feel more confident making a purchase. I’m new to the hobby and this really helped a lot.
Thanks for creating this video!, now I know which servo fits my needs and budget better!
I listened to your explanation carefully, this is valuable information for me, we should not be easily fooled by the list listed on the servo label, so that we can carefully sort out which servo is good and cheap and of good quality even though we are a little deceived by the specifications. thank you very much for this explanation.
Excellent roundup and testing, thanks Don!
Great comparison. This video deserves a lot more viewers. Thank you!
Very cool comparison, voltages, forces and power consumption. This is very useful. Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍
Love the time an thoroughness of your videos! Great work. Watch your channel a lot. Hidden gem!
I have the spt 5435 and it only pulls 25 kgs ,it is very well made though with no slop gears .I also have the Power hd lf 20s and they are pulling 26lbs on 1" arm which equates to 30kgs per cm from memory. I think they are very impressive
Fabulous, Don!
Will be perfect if you have a savox servo as a bench mark to compare, so that we can know how good a medium price range product is better than these.
Anyway, appreciate your efforts to made this informative video!
Wow, vielen lieben Dank für diese tolle Gegenüberstellung. 👍👍👍
Pin 1 is forward only, pin 2 reverse, can probably write a little code to Arduino to convert into proper signal for ESC
Thanks for this, picked up a DS225sg coreless for my drift RC!
Donald, thanks for putting this great comparison together. Just gave you thumb up on all 5 videos!!
would've liked to see speed measurements, probably the most important detail for race rc cars.
great video, actually made me not buy the wrong servo.
DS3225 is a great servo. I have one in both my crawlers and my Arrma Granite
Thanks for all the tests you've done, I've bought DS3225 coreless base on your recommendation and I must say, they are good!
Thank you for your work and sharing.
Tip Top er Test. So sollte er sein! Kannst du noch ein Video machen, mit den 1/24 Crawler Servos???
Vielen Dank für den umfangreichen Test!
Interessant wäre das Ergebnis beim Betrieb der Servos an einem Hobbywing 1080, welcher nur 3 A liefert.
WEIGHT of servo list anywhere ? Physical weight including wire ?
Very Nice vídeos of servos! Thanks a lot for the info!
gretings, what is your opinion of super400 or super500???
Hi, I du not know those.
Thank you Donald!
Happy that my DS3225MG tested well. It’s a favorite in our club and easy to get online here in SoCal. RIP LHS😂
SG, not MG ;-) - but ordered a MG recently, we will see, how it does.
Yes, correct! Just finished crawling and checked. It’s the ds3225ssg, sold by annimos on amazon. $35 usd delivered. I’ve been around long enough to remember paying $300+ for servos of similar spec & construction....so life is good😎
@@ruftime I paid only 13 or 14 bucks for it at BG last year when it was new, but then they checked they had made a mistake and the 3225MG is sold for this price, the 3225SG for 20+ now. Made a video about this "bargain servo" last year.
However: Well worth the 20 - 30 bucks, a real bargain.
Hey can U Test ks3518 digital servo thus please
The ds3235 can run 3s direct volt
Servo potenca DS 34 will be ok for a pitts FMS v1 Ruder? Merci vielmau
Do not know, only have the Pitts S-1s UMX. It is ca. 50 g...? If the size is ok it will work.
Hi .
For x maxx 1/5 .
Whot servo you recommended?
Tenks.
Hmmm... hard to day. One of the strongest, but maybe even a bigger one than those here.
Since I do not have an XMaxx and no 1/5 basher, I cannot say for sure, sorry.
Ist das ein Test für Crawler-Servos? Ich suche nach starken/schnellen Servos für meinen E-Revo 2.0...eignen sich die getesteten Servos auch für solch einen Basher?
Die schnellen Servos sicher, DSServo DS3225SG ist sicher gut geeignet, stark, schnell, gute Verarbeitung. Auch andere... (WP26, etc.).
@@donaldsneffe Warst Du nicht gerade von den JX total enttäuscht?
Ich hab Dein Video übrigens in 3 Foren gepostet damit Du mal mehr Clicks bekommst.....so ein wichtiges Dokument. Danke an dieser Stelle.
@@hirthirthirt1693 DS 3225SG ist kein JX, sondern DSServo. Hab mich verschrieben, sorry, hab es ausgebessert. DS3225SG ist top.
@@donaldsneffe Hmmm..25usd, das wäre eventuell das EcoBoost noch besser...das ist ultraschnell. Weiß jetzt nicht auswendig ob Du es auch in deinem Test hattest. Glaub aber nicht:
ua-cam.com/video/O2CtAO_srGY/v-deo.html
👍🏻 😊
Do any of these stand out as noticeably faster than the other ones?
Yes, the non-crawler servos SPT4412LV and URUAV BLS1806
@@donaldsneffe Thanks! These two are discontinued or I can’t find them, how about what servo would you pick for a 3s arrma Typhon 1/8 buggy with an added gyro? I’m pretty experienced, have had a tmaxx 3.3 for 10+ years, a plethora of planes, a bunch of cheap rcs and stuff, now I’m wanting a really precise fast servo that will work well with my gyro and stuff, but looking to stay under $50. Thanks!
@@travispratt6327 It is a pity that many of those China servos are not available anymore, and there are tons and tons of new ones released nearly every week. It is impossible to keep an overview and even more impossible to buy and test those all.
I do not have any experience with buggys, do not have one, never had one, only crawler, Mini-Z, helis, planes... ok, I DO have the Mini-Z buggy, but that's a different story ;-)
I really like the URUAV WP26, have two of those (but actually BG does not ship it to my country anymore). Full metal, rather fast, very well built, HV, ... guess it should also be suitable for a buggy.
The 50 $ price class is a totally other class... you will find tons of servos, but I cannot give any recommendation, sorry ;-)
@@donaldsneffe Cool np, I have a crawler as well and been through maybe 5 or so servos on it, the best so far is the DS3218 PRO, have you had any experience with this one and know of any that are faster? It’s under $20 and outperforms all my other servos in torque and speed, including the normal ds3218, traxxas stock servos, arrma stock servos and old futaba servos I have. Do you at least know of anything that’s faster than the ds3218 pro? That’s what I’m leaning towards but kinda would like to try something different. Thanks again for the replies!
@@donaldsneffe Oh another thing I don’t like about the DS3218 and similar designs are they’re not really waterproof, I like snow and mud and water cause I live in very wet New England, so if you know of one that at least matches it but has an actual ipx rating that’d be cool too 😎
So the DS3225 has less torque on 7.4v than 6.0v? That's weird
Hi, it does not.
I measured 22.9, 22.4 and 21.4 kg-cm on 6 V, and 23.3, 22.9 and 22.4 kg-cm on 7.4 Volt.
However, I did already test a ton of servos and found the difference between 6 V and 7.4 V often surprisingly small.
Maybe you have mixed up something and mean the "percent of factory specifications" part?
On 6 V it showed 95.3% of factory specifications, on 7.4 V 91.5% - both very good results.
Le quelle pour crawler traxxas defender ?
Merci
All stronger ones, see list in description. Also Check DS3225MG, good and very cheap.
Fantastic review - if you had tested the speed of the servos too that would have been perfect ;)
Thanks.
If you tell me how... I would. We thought a lot (forum) how to measure servo speed with simple methods... No result ...
@@donaldsneffe i would get a slow motion camera, pointed at servo, a fast transmitter and a stop watch.. have all 3 in view and then record the time it takes for a 60 degree turn from movement of the transmitter
@@joshgrahamnz ... it is not that easy setup camera etc... We thought of highspeed cameras, but 100 fps is not enough and light is always a problem (I use sometimes really good and super expensive highspeed cameras at work).
Furthermore in this setup I do not use a transmitter, but a servo tester... would have to setup a transmitter on 2 pos-switch...
All this is a ton of work and the results won't be good.
Still would be cool - but very difficult to do at home at my hobby work bench. One would have to do this in a lab... but RC is just my hobby ;-)
@@donaldsneffe ah i see.. perhaps i did not think about it enough.. you clearly tried.. oh well.. perhaps one day 😉
@@donaldsneffe What you could actually do is attach a long lightweight stick to the end of each servo and compare them all, this way it would be easier to see the difference in speed
Eigentlich ganz gut gemeint, doch immer den Daumen auf der Bezeichnung , und oben der Aufkleber , wie soll man dann die Servos erkennen, schwarz sind die doch ALLE !! SChade, schade....
How can the RC chart video we all want have less than 1 mill views!?!
Yeah the ds 3218 servo is crap it was in my rustler for a year and already dying barely can center back itself fucked up the TSM system i highly recommend to my enemies :,D
Your methodology is VERY FLAWED. So sad as you put so much hard work into this and this could have been an excellent video, but unfortunately you don't seem to have a basic understanding of how torque works. Therefore, most of your readings are flawed... Your horn is correctly vertical on some of the servos at full load, and those readings are correct. But others are at an angle anything between vertical to 45 degrees. And an angle at 45 degrees will read TWICE the force compared to perfectly vertical horn if, as you do your testing in a linearly fashion. So, in short: if a 45-degree horn reads 20kg, it equals to 20kg/HALF cm which equals to 10kg/cm. So, some of your readings are off by a factor 200%.
Die Namen sind ja Zungebrecher
Na dann üb mal ;-)