Savox SC-1268SG High Voltage Servo Review

When you are putting together a new plane, there are a lot of questions you need to ask yourself. One of the biggies you will ask is, "What servos should I choose?" Although items like power plant and guidance are also important areas, your servos are a very important when it comes to the final performance of your new aircraft. Servos will decide if your plane will perform precisely. Servos will decide if your plane will perform reliably. Servos will decide if your plane will fly great, and consistently great every single time you bring it to the flying field. For me, Savox is my servo of choice. Savox produces high quality, high performance servos for nearly every application, at very competitive prices.

I was recently putting together a second Extreme Flight 78" Extra 300. For servos, I chose the Savox SC-1268SG High Voltage servos. These servos are equipped with an aluminum midriff case for efficient cooling, and produce 347 oz/in of torque at a zippy 0.11 seconds speed. These servos produce more than enough torque for this application and are insanely quick as well. They center perfectly every time, and are SiiiCK on 7.4 volts! Also, good luck finding another name brand servo with similar specifications for under $100. The Savox SC-1268SG is only $92.99!

But enough blabbering about specifications! Let's let the servos do the talking!

As you can see, the Savox SC-1268SG HV servos are a terrific fit for your quarter scale applications, and hold up great under the pressure of Extreme Aerobatics and 3D maneuvers.

--Tom K.

Tee Hee Hee... Plenty of Stuff to Come This Month! 

--Tom K.

Rusty Huckin'!

So in the last month and a half due to finals, school ending, and spending the first couple of weeks with my friends, I haven't gotten out to the field a lot. In fact, I've flown about three minutes on an aerobatic airframe in that time frame. Needless to say I'm a bit rusty. Regardless, yesterday at the field I took some pictures and shot a video. I really do love this 78" Extra!

Hopefully I'll get out to the field more often.




--Tom K.

DCM Fly-In Videos!

Hey Everyone!

A post or two back here on Tom's 3D Huckfest I wrote a bit about the 22nd Annual Dick Coles Memorial Big Bird IMAA Fly-In held at my home field of Manatee County Radio Controllers. I mentioned how I was to look at the videos soon and get them uploaded. Unfortunately, I've been quite busy with school and other things, but my dad was kind enough to take a look at them and chop up the flights into a few videos. There is no music in them, so whether that's a good thing or a bad thing for you, I'll let you be the judge of that. I know a lot of people like to hear the engine, and many people zone out after a bit if there's no tunes. Regardless, all three days I flew at the event donning my Savox T-Shirts and Polos, and my good friend Frank was kind enough to let me fly his 91" Extreme Flight Extra 300 EXP and his 104" Aeroworks Yak-54. Both of these planes fly incredibly, and as you can see, the Yak really likes to do big sky maneuvers and IMAC style flights, while the Extreme Flight is catered more towards Extreme Aerobatics. But that's enough rambling, here are the videos!



--Tom K.

Savox Heli Motor!

Hey Everyone! I'm out at the field posting from my phone. A friend of mine is flying one of the new Savox motors! Check it out!

Dick Coles Memorial IMAA Fly In

Hey Everyone!

This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (March 8th, 9th, and 10th) was the 22nd Annual Dick Coles Memorial Big Bird Fly In at the Manatee County Radio Controllers field. This is my home field, and my spring break landed right on that week so I was able to attend all three days. This is an IMAA event, so only quarter scale and up, or the standard 80" monoplane/60" biplane minimum rule was the standard for the event. This year was the first year I actually had an airworthy plane of that size, and therefore was able to actually fly my own airplane equipped with Savox High Torque Digital Servos in the event.

My plane was the 78" Extreme Flight Extra 300. Even though this is not a member of the EXP line of Extreme Flight planes, it is still an AWESOME flying airplane and, in my opinion, doesn't need any changes. As for this plane, like all my planes at the moment, the power system is electric. I run a Hacker A60-16M with a Castle ICE2 HV 120A ESC on 10S 5000mAh 40C Sky LiPo battery packs, and together they work to swing a Mejzlik 22x10TH Carbon Fiber prop. The servos I use, as always, are Savox digital servos. The ones I'm currently running are the SC-1267SG servos. These provide 277oz/in of torque at a stunningly quick 0.09 seconds. They also feature an aluminum midriff case for efficient cooling, and they work pretty dang well on this plane.

Also at this event, my friend Frank was very generous and let me get many flights on his big aircraft: a 91" Extreme Flight Extra 300 EXP with a DA-60 and an Aeroworks 104" Yak 54 with a BME-116. I want to thank Frank a lot for letting my fly his planes this weekend. I know I got over 10 flights on his aircraft. Also, I had a brain fart and left my batteries for my planes at the house Saturday so they didn't get any airtime that day, so Frank's generosity helped keep me in the air all weekend. Hopefully soon I'll find the time to go and chop up the footage we got this weekend.

As for the event, we had over 40 pilots, the field was packed with spectators on all three days of the event, the parking lot was a madhouse, and the concession stand sold out of food at least twice. Troy Hawthorne with his beautiful 110" B-17 with custom bomb-bay doors and moving and sound producing machine guns provided the candy drop for the youth in the crowd.  We had pilots all the way from Illinois come down for this event to escape the snowy weather they received on the days preceding the event, and we also had many club members enter the event to show off their big airplanes and strut their stuff in front of a large crowd.

The weather was perfect Friday and Saturday, however Sunday kept many pilots grounded due to high winds. But there was never a dull moment at this year's event, and I'd call it a huge success.

Soon I hope to edit together some videos from this event, and I'll post them here on my blog as well as on my youtube channel, so keep checking back.

--Tom K.

*NEW* Savox Releases!

Hey Everybody! I just got word that Savox is coming out with a brand new line of... stuff! Savox has been developing and testing these new items for a while, and they're supposed to be pretty awesome! They are HAND WOUND electric motors ranging from 450kv-3500kv and for classes of helicopters from 450 all the way up to the 700 class. They look pretty dang cool, too! Here a list of the new releases:

450 Class:  

BSM2940, precision wound with machine accuracy, 3500KV, 71g

500 Class: 

BSM3750 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, available in 1200 and 1300kv, 184g

BSM4050 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, available in 1200 and 1300kv, 215g

550 Class:  

BSM4750 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, 1200kv, 270g

600 Class: 

BSM4760 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, 1200kv, 358g

BSM5055 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, 1200kv, 363g

700 Class: 

 BSM5065 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, available in 450kv, 500kv, and 5300kv, 454g

Some special features these new motors include is a 10% temperature drop over the other leading brands of motors. How do they do this? Savox has designed a unique cooling design, including an aluminum housing, six angled ports, and an internal cooling fan. All these new, innovative solutions results in a 10% temperature drop over other leading brands. Savox Test Pilot Simon Vaamonde said, "After 110 flights with the Savox BSM5025 500kv motor, it still performs like new and continues to run much cooler than other leading motors and brands taht I have tride, definitely and impressive feat in my flying experience."

Savox already has a full line of RC servos, and has developed new motors to go along with RC helicopter applications through a broad spectrum of the helicopter size range. Savox designs, develops, and manufactures all their products themselves, and has a professional and experience R&D team striving to develop superb performance products with innovative technology and reliable quality as a main objective in their products.