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A 2056 is worthless for steering duties. A 2075 is questionable, but is quite a bit better than a 2056. Is your current steering servo a 2056 or 2055? If so, use it for t/b duties. That way you only need to buy one servo when the time comes. I take it your current t/b servo is a 2018?
 
I just make sure to avoid water all together. If my rigs are gonna get wet then they stay inside. I use a futaba s3305 for steering and a hitec 635 for throttle. The 635 is much faster than the 645. I love it for the throttle response. Pulls the brakes more than enough too.
 
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What kind of charger should I get? The traxxas peak detecting charger? Is there a simple wall charger I could buy like the kind of charger I use for my starter battery and glow ignitor?
 
Austin2048 said:
What kind of charger should I get? The traxxas peak detecting charger? Is there a simple wall charger I could buy like the kind of charger I use for my starter battery and glow ignitor?
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Don't get a traxxas one. Try dynamite or futaba. I don't know of many others but there's alot of brands available for a good price.
 
It will work, but it will be slow. Might be better off spending a bit more on something that can charge at 1A, which will charge a 1400mah pack in 1.5 hours or so vs an overnight charger.

Like this one:
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=DYN4056

I have this one in a drawer:
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=DYN4036

It worked ok, but I needed something that would charge at a lower rate for my AAA's. So I picked up a MRC 959 that will charge at .5A-4.5A. I use 1A for my receiver packs and transmitter, but .5 for my AAA's.
 
Considering what shipping cost, it's better that I keep mine as a spare vs selling it. The stinking thing is so heavy, would cost me $10-15 just to ship it!

It should work ok for you. The other handy thing is if you get rechargeable AA's for your transmitter, you can use this to charge that too. May require you to put your own charge plug on it, but it's really nice to not have to deal with AA's all the time.
 
Oh that will do AAs too?? That's cool. I've been thinking of switching to rechargables when this pack of alkalines I have are gone. Alkalines are so expensive
 
It will if you have them in a 4 or 8 cell holder. On radios that don't have a jack (or you don't have a jack that fits), you can easily wire in a servo plug to use as a charge point so you don't have to take the cells out to charge them. Just don't charge them over 1A and you should be fine.

This is my old Airtronics MX-3. It had a jack, but I didn't have a plug that fit it, so I just took the thing apart, drilled a hole for the wire and wired in a spare lead I had:
2008-0105-MX3ChargePigTail.jpg


One of these:
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXL302&P=M
 

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