Hitec 225 MG Servo's

[Dflyer]

Hi,

i'm planning on buying a Atom 500 and i was wondering if the Hitec 225 MG wil fit this heli. This heli will be put in a fuse, so no hard 3D for this machine !

Grtz,
Dirk

[Fade-Dude]

I had them in mine...

Will fit with "effort", but were CRAP to say the least.... no really... everytime i went to centre stick they centered differently..

I also had an issue where i had to drastically adjust endpoints, as the one servo simply did not push as far as teh rest??

Maybe i just had bad luck.... but i took them out, running innolabs now... and awesome!

[Mercuriell]

I've had generally good experience with Hitec servos but o get the best out of them you need their digital programmer as there can be issue with centre points and range of travel in a few as Fade-Dude seems to have had - the InoLabs are great and the ALign 520 are a good servo and drop straight in !

[nmanno]

Hi Dflyer, I put 5245mg in my atom and they look and perform great. They center well, are fast and are quite cheap. I posted a thread on how to mount them in the atom as they are not the plug and play type.
I crashed my atom so hard recently that I'll be better off buying a new kit (w/o motor, esc and blades) but the servos held well. I just had to replace a top case of one of the 3 cyclic servos, no gears stripped.
Good luck and enjoy the atom.

[Dflyer]

@ Fade-Dude,

do they fit without modifications ? I must say that i'm really pleased with the H82 MG that i have put in my TREX 500. They do center well, not as well as digitals but they do their job fine.

@nmanno

Are you pleased with your Atom ? Can you compare it with the TREX 500 ?

Thanks
grtz,
Dirk

[Fade-Dude]

Are you talking about the hitecs or innolabs?

Both (don't fit) out of the box...... the innolabs came together well using the align spacers you can buy.

The hitecs i fitted without spacers sorta sitting in between no where, barely biting on the frames.. i won;t recommend fitting them that way or flying those servo's :-)

[nmanno]

The Hitec 5245 fit very well if you use the align spacers (t-rex 500 parts). See my other thread.

I am sorry I can't compare the atom with the rex500 but all I can say is that the motor is amazing, it never gets hot! The new ESC is really good as well.
I don't like philips screws, I prefer the hex screws and unfortunately the atom is full of philips while the rex has hex ones.
What is good as well, is whilst I had a big crash, a new kit is going to cost me not even half of the rex 500 price. The frames are super strong and I haven't broken them in my major crash.
All in all I am quite happy with the atom, but I am can't really compare the two in flight.