Twin steering servo advice please.

[dyahipfakta 50]

Hi gents and ladies of course. After a recent purchase a hpi blitz with 2.4 radio gear I have decided to take the plunge and perhaps convert afew of my other trucks. Most notably my e maxx which has struggled on 27mhz gear since I put a single huge brushes motor (850) in it. Only problem I have is that it uses twin steering servos and a receiver with 2 inputs on a single channel. My question is will there be any issue using a y harness for the 2 servos into a single input. I don't want to end up damaging the servos as they are waterproof high torque and expensive.

Thanks

In advance

Andy

P.s any recommendations for cheap 2.4 gear would be appreciated but I'm sure this has been covered many times

[B.M.T. 127]

A Y harness is fine, as long as it's just a Y harness. Avoid amplified and (particularly) reversing ones

As for radio... Brand names obviously have a reputation to uphold, or you can play FrySpy roulette... What ever feels comfortable.

[waterbok 1282]

If you go for a Flysky 2.4 remote (GT3B) you could run the second servo from the third channel and with some software hacks and programming (not as hard as it sounds) could do:

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I would also recomend an external BEC with a little more power like 5 or 10 A and programmable Voltage

[WillyChang 1816]

Hi gents and ladies of course. After a recent purchase a hpi blitz with 2.4 radio gear I have decided to take the plunge and perhaps convert afew of my other trucks. Most notably my e maxx which has struggled on 27mhz gear since I put a single huge brushes motor (850) in it. Only problem I have is that it uses twin steering servos and a receiver with 2 inputs on a single channel. My question is will there be any issue using a y harness for the 2 servos into a single input. I don't want to end up damaging the servos as they are waterproof high torque and expensive.

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P.s any recommendations for cheap 2.4 gear would be appreciated but I'm sure this has been covered many times

if you buy Traxxas RTR 2.4gHz radio gear the RX comes with 2 slots for CH1 plenty of TRX chop shops on fleaBay

Are the servos 2055 or 2075? yeah they're waterproof, decent torque (but not crazy, else why need 2?)

& not crazy expensive either... they ain't even metal geared afaik

Alternately if you buy a good 3 or 4ch radio eg Spektrum DX3/DX4 you can mix Ch3 to Ch1.

Set the mix to a straight mirror and you can plug 2nd steering servo into ch3/Aux slot.

[dyahipfakta 50]

2075 they are plastic internals and not mental torque but still about 25 -30 quid a pop by the time they get to me. I use it for just hooning around on gravel tracks and through puddles and stuff so they are fine for that. Will look into the spectrum option that sounds interesting and also the traxxas 2.4 as mentioned that would probably be the logical option lol.

[B.M.T. 127]

If you go for a Flysky 2.4 remote (GT3B) you could run the second servo from the third channel and with some software hacks and programming (not as hard as it sounds) could do:

\\ or \\ or ||

// \\ \\

I would also recomend an external BEC with a little more power like 5 or 10 A and programmable Voltage

BEC, not a bad idea, but the MAXX trucks have two servos tethered together steering the front wheels. Having them do anything but identical movements would be very bad..

[waterbok 1282]

The bec wont interfere with that, the 3rd mixing might ;-)