Looking at some brushless servo - thoughts? Longer runtime?

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For the testing I mentioned in my previous post we simply made a harness that allowed a standard multi-meter to be used, inline with the servo for amp readings, parrallel for voltage readings. The VA meter you linked is only acurrate to .5amp, and from my experiments I'd say is not accurrate enough. Of the half dozen servos I tested, average amp draw was between .2-.5amps with spikes averaging .5-.7amps under normal conditions. Big tires, binding and other forms of increased strain on the servo typically raised those values by .2-.5amps. These values would be hard to measure with a device that's only accurate to .5amp, but it would able to be used on a running vehicle instead of the static testing I did.

If your reciever lipo doesn't help response, double check the tx settings, particularly expo before blaming the servos. I'm not familar with the savage does it use a servo mounted servo saver? If so I'd switch to a mgt servo saver, they are about the tightest readily availinle one I've found and work well on the maxx trucks I've had.