 Another important part of your touring car electronics package is your steering servo. You're going to need a decent quality, low profile servo. I say decent quality as you'll need it to be relatively fast and responsive in order for you to have proper control over your car
You also want to ensure you are running a brand that is popular at your track to ensure you can get help from your fellow racers with setting up your servo and also for parts support should you ever need it (gear sets, replacement case etc) Here are my top picks for touring car steering servos as well as some honourable mentions: Top Suggestions Premium: Sanwa PGS LH2 Middle: PowerHD S15 Entry Level: PowerHD R12s Why I Suggest These Servos: The Sanwa PGS LH2 is among the most popular high-end servos used in electric touring cars. It comes at a premium price but is ultra fast, fully programmable, durable and reliable. This servo is also fully compatible with the Sanwa transmitters that I recommend The PowerHD servos are also a great servo at an affordable price. To me, PowerHD is to servos as FlySky is to transmitters...these used to be cheap junk but they now have some very high quality products. The S15 features a durable aluminum case, metal gears, a fast transit speed and more than enough torque for a touring car. The R12s has similar speed to the S15 but features a plastic case and slightly lower torque to help keep the cost down Where to buy: I primarily stock Sanwa servos and special order other brands such as PowerHD, Highest, SRT and MKS approximately once per month. Here's a link to the servos I currently have available:
And here are some that I can order: Used Equipment: You can save some money by purchasing a used servo. Just be careful as servos do wear out. If you buy used, try to determine how old the servo is and what it was used for. A servo used in an off-road vehicle, crawler or basher may have more wear-and-tear than one used strickly for electric on-road so should be priced accordingly. To find a used servo, try posting a "wanted" ad on one of our local Facebook buy and sell pages: Back to Getting Started Series > Comments are closed.
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