'Widget' Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Hi, Can you use the Turnigy Servo Speed Regulator to slow down my retract servo ? The servo is a Hitec non proportional one. Cheers, Widget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pete B Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Eric's right, it doesn't work on a pukka retract servo. Very good on normal servos, though. Useful servo reverse function on it, too. Good bit of kit but now facing redundancy for me, unfortunately - I've just got a DX8 and you can program servo speed on any channel! Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Fenton Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 As Eric and Pete have said, The Turnigy unit will not slow down a retract servo. SM Services do a delay unit which will delay the trigger point, but again not the speed. The TX slow function will also just delay the trigger point not actually slow a retract servo down. If you look at the power of many retract servos they are not much more powerful than a std servo, granted you don't get as much throw, but they are all I use. Cheers Danny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Widget' Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 Thanks for the quick response chaps, thought as much, I must say I'm a tad disappointed with the marketing description for this unit which does say for use on U/C.Oh well it'll come in handy one day I expect ! Cheers, Widget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Jones Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 If it's any help I use one just for the noseleg on a standard servo. This allows me to match the speed of the noseleg with the main undercarraige which is on a retract servo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10 lover/clive Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 i thought of using a digital and programming it slower and travel any thoughts on the ideaEdited By 10 lover on 08/01/2011 19:06:04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10 lover/clive Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 in fact why havent any of the big manufactures designed a digital retract servo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Fenton Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 A retract servo only has two positions 180 degrees apart, not sure there is much point in digital for that??? I always use standard proportional servos for retracts, they work fine and you can slow them if you wish. Cheers Danny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Fenton Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Cheers Danny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pete B Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Well, Eric, my parsimonious self would say that a proportional servo would probably cost less, could be used in another scenario - and is capable of being slowed down to scale-like speed................ Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ton van Munsteren Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Widget, The Turnigy Servo Speed Regulator works great on standard servo,s and is good fun. Follow the link if you like to see some more of it . http://www.modelflying.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=36384&p=1 Iam using it in my Beaufighter on two standard servo's homemade retracts and Spitfire on one servo which operates the two retracts. Ton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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