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05-13-2008, 05:19 PM
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| Busy buildin or crawlin!!   Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Castle Rock
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|  TowerPro 945 and 995 servo problems
I purchased a TowerPro 945 and a 995 servo a month ago or so. The 945 for my 2.2 comp tuber and the 995 for my 1.9 scaler. I know these are cheaper servos, but as of now both of my are completly trashed out. I got 2 battery packs on the 945 and 3 packs on the 995. Junk servos, don't waste your money. Gears just spin inside case and grind when it turns. I have 2 JR servos and have never had an issue. Just wondering if any one else is haveing problems with the TowerPro servos? |
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05-13-2008, 05:28 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2007 Location: lacey
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in all Honesty, what did you expect for 20 bucks?
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05-13-2008, 05:36 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Lorain
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Yea, samething happened to me. 995 worked for about a month and then died. Quicker then your's, but I upgraded to a hs-645 without any problems. I just had one die on me and its been over a year.
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05-13-2008, 05:43 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fairfield ME
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I run my 946r on 7 volts with no issues. My crawler gets jumped regularly too... which isn't easy on a servo.
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05-13-2008, 05:44 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: santa monica
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I have a towerpro in my gwagon and I've been bashing it pretty good for the last 6 months without issue. I have the hs-645 in my rover and that is also reliable.
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05-13-2008, 05:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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My 945's have searved me well. I have had a few fail, but for the money, they are a good servo.  Last edited by dezfan; 05-13-2008 at 06:34 PM. |
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05-13-2008, 06:00 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: seattle
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| spend the money!!!
Besides your tx, rx and your ESC<-----------Don't be cheep! spend the money on a quality servo. |
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05-13-2008, 07:02 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: USA
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05-13-2008, 07:04 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: St. John's
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I'm guessing that your servos are suffering from problems with the top case. I ran my TP945s (front and rear) for a number of months before they started to get sloppy and began to bind. Then I looked at the mounting hole in the top case and came up with this repair: New Life for Towerpro Servos? My TPs are running as smooth (if not smoother than) the day I bought them. I just received two new 945s in the mail today for a total of 26.00 shipping included. As long as I can fix them, I'll keep running these cheap and strong servos. Just my experience. |
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05-13-2008, 07:10 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Vancouver Island B.C.
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 Havent had a servo failure since, going on 2 years now.
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05-13-2008, 07:25 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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Huh, Thats funny.. I have run the 995s, and 945s, and am currently running the 946, And my wife runs the 995 and my son runs the 945 all on 8 cell 2/3a packs and mine on a 2c lipo and have never ever experienced a failure in over a year of competing and testing.. I have more failure out of my hitech 645s...
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05-13-2008, 07:29 PM
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| Official Cook of the ECC   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hawthorne, Florida
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I have a few of the TP servos and have only had 1 failure. I run them on my scalers for steering and winches. |
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