Hextronik HXT500 - 5g Micro Servo

Specifications

Reviews of Hextronik HXT500 (8)

• Extreme Sports

  September 20, 2014

  Rating:

  Application(s): Park flyers below 500g AUW

  Comments: These are not bad servos for the price, but unlike the larger HXT900s, they do strip gears regularly. Over time all the HXT500s that I have installed in larger planes have stripped their gears...and all in exactly the same way. Interestingly, the gears do not fail from too large a force being applied to the control surface in flight or the control surface getting deflected in a crash, but rather when the whole airframe is 'jolted' in a hard landing and that sudden 'shock' (possibly transmitted through the control surface)seems to make short work of the gears.

• ejrome

  July 27, 2014

  Rating:

  Application(s): robotics

  Comments: this small piece really surprised me. for its nifty price i thought it would have been a failed purchase, but it's been great working with it. :]

• Gerhard

  March 24, 2014

  Rating:

  Application(s): small flying wing

  Comments: Excellent on my mini swift!

• c00laris

  May 1, 2013

  Rating:

  Application(s): Aileron in Alula Evo

  Comments: robust cheap and reliable servo.
  Even runs on single cell lipo in my alula SAL.
  (Centering is generally ok but maybe not perfect for this application.)

• Hoot48

  June 23, 2011

  Rating:

  Application(s): Foamies tail feathers and aeleron

  Comments: Great for park flyejrs and foamies...
  On more expencive planes I use hitech 45hb

• jeanclaude

  December 9, 2010

  Rating:

  Application(s): small planes or delta

  Comments: used this servos all the summer whitout problems;
  last week i fly by low temperature around 0 ° celcius and servos worked , stopped , worked .... and i crashed !!
  did some one have same bad experiences in winter ??

• Captain Steve

  November 9, 2010

  Rating:

  Application(s): Indoor scratch built foamies

  Comments: Nice not to have to consider the servos as a major part of your investment. These are excellent servos and really cheap.Buy 'em by the handful!

• Some Useless Geek

  July 14, 2010

  Rating:

  Application(s): Park jet and indoor foamy

  Comments: This is *the* standard servo for foamy park flyer scratch builders. Look anywhere on RCGroups, Wattflyer, RCUniverse, etc. You'll see this servo all over the world and in every conceivable aircraft.
  
  I have used dozens of these servos, have installed them on lots of planes built for others, and have recommended them to everybody I know scratch building planes. The only ones that have failed have been driven into the ground under power or destroyed through other violent abuse. At three bucks fifty apiece you can afford to build a lot more planes.
  
  I would also like to mention that the actual measured weight of the servo with its cable and connector is 6.4 grams, not the 4.8 listed by the OEM. (Confirmed on two different digital scales.)