My throttle servo has gone crazy!

[skeeter1255]

My throttle servo has gone crazy! it will be ok for like a minute but then go crazy, I spilled full on it a couple of times but long time ago. there is no medal to medal touching and I dont know what to do! I havnt been able to drive my rc10 gt for a while now, and now I get up early to drive it and now I have a problem!!!!1 this sucks OH well Iguess this is the hobby,

but do you guys think it time for a new serve or not? oh ya and its the stock AE servo!

 

[FastEddy]

It could be a bad servo, low or bad batteries in the RX - TX or both, Bad wire connection, broken or loose antenna wire, loose TX antenna, Bad RX, outside radio interference, metal to metal contact, Antenna wire to metal, carbon, or graphite, or sun flares.

Need to check it all.....

Edit:
Bad fail-safe or fail-safe connection.

 

[skeeter1255]

checked all those and still dose it!

 

[FastEddy]

checked all those and still dose it!

Then your poop out of luck.

Did you try replacing each component?
Unfortunately if you checked each and everything on the list it will be your only other option.

BTW, I forgot to add that it could be the crystals or a miss aligned dial on a synth TX or RX.

 

[Monkey Wrench]

If your servo has gone crazy, you need to take it to a psychiatrist.

You mention in your first post spilling "full" on it. I'm guessing you mean fuel, right? If so, and the servo was on and you didn't let it dry, then the servo is shot. Buck up and buy a new one.

 

[rocknbil]

Dude just like they told you on the OTHER forum, swap the servo plugs at the receiver and see if it still does it, this will tell you whether it's the servo or the receiver that's the problem!

Doh!

 

[HeartBreak]

I've had that happen with a servo that was improperly mounted *doh*, and got vibrated to death. The only way to fix it is to replace it, or send it in for repairs.

 

[olds97_lss]

Try swapping your steering servo with it just to see if it goes nuts after a few minutes. If it does, then it's not the servo. It's more than likely the servo though... or your getting some really bad radio bleed from something.

 

[kx250ryder]

My digital steering servo will act that way if my battery isn't fully charged. Even if I charged the battery a couple days before, and didn't use it, the self drain of the battery is enough to make my servo glitch. I have to top off the battery pack each day that I drive to make it happy.

EDIT: I had a high torque analog servo before this servo that did the same thing too. So its not just that this one is digital that makes it so sensitive to battery charge.