Amount of Servo torque - What would you consider the best for...

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Thanks for the input guys. I think Brian is on to something with his rule of thumb he uses for servos. It seems to fit right in the range that Whats_Nitro and Rootar put down. The rest of you guys are all over the board! LOL JK you guys. All of your posts were very helpful. Atleast the way Brian put it I might be able to remember it better. I'm sitting well on the high torque servos. I'm running the HS5955TG in the evo and emaxx and have the HS5988TG in the Kyosho truggy and Losi eight. This will help me figure out a decent servos for the smaller RCs at half the cost of the ones above. I have a rag tag fleet of servos as I bet most of you do also. A box with Futaba, Traxxas, Hitec, no namers, cut cords, and a zip lock bag with a bunch of gears that are not inner changable with any other servo. A winter project/goal is to get a decent digital servo on each of the RC. One of thier own. I have stolen so many parts off the Pede that all that is left is the FLM chassis. Well there's more but that all that is put together.


I do have another one you could help out with. I've been wondering about the manual brake/throttle servo. What would you recommend for the manual brake servo in a STRR truggy or even a losi 8b. Pardon my ignorance here but is there any physics(?) or what not involved with the way these manual brakes are used that a high torque servo not really required to stop or is it all servo force that makes them stop short of the curb?

If your running a nitro it seem like it could be a catch 22 if you need torque for the brakes but you would want speed for the throttle.

Thanks pedeboi364. Your numbers also fit in with Brians rule of thumb. Nice to have some consistency.