Newcomer to Pattern and Servo Questions

[Del Rykert]

Welcome Dieter.
    This is the place to get good advice. Opinions can differ as people are different. Myself I love my Airtonics that has never failed my in 14 years since leaving my Kraft's as sport or collector radios. Digitals are nice but power/juice hungry. If you can handle the expense and go to higher capacity airborne then Digitals are worth a lot. I am still using coreless ball bearing. Will upgrade to digitals this off season.
 
     Del K. Rykert
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: DIETER ROZEK 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 10:53 PM
  Subject: Newcomer to Pattern and Servo Questions


  I just joined this list about a couple of weeks ago since I'm in the process
  of getting into pattern.  My decision to get into pattern is purely to
  improve my flying competency.  I'm guessing this would be the arena to due
  this in.  I've been flying since 1984 mostly "sport" Extra 300 and Byron
  Sukhoi 26m and sailplanes, http://www.soaringissa.org/.  I live in the Los
  Angeles area and the problem here mainly is the loss of flying sites due to
  expanding development, especially where soaring is concerned.
  Unfortunately, RC doesn't have much pull in local communities and it's been
  my experience that the majority of people at the fields are 30+ years of
  age.  I'm one of the generation Xers who grew up building plastic kits and
  then moved over to RC planes. This was right around the time where the video
  game "revolution"  was just beginning to start.  I'm greatful that I didn't
  get wrapped up in this movement.  I can't speak for others but I would
  quickly grow tired of some of the video games I played at friends' houses
  whereas the challanges of building and flying RC models seem to have a
  never-ending appeal.  I'm guessing this is the exact opposite of what kids
  are experiencing today.  They probably don't have the patience due to the
  "instant gratification" nature of society, hence all the ARFs.  I relise
  that this is a generalization but I'd be willing to bet that the RC hobby is
  losing a lot of future members to video games and other distractions.  This
  is unfortunately a sad reality since this hobby offers a lot to whoever is
  willing to take the time.  The perceived required dedication / commitment,
  work and expense not only in Pattern but RC in general is probably what is
  keeping alot of people away.



  Now to my question.  I'm planning on buying a Mintor 1.7 and putting this in
  a Temptation.  So I would like to hear some opinions regarding servos.  I'm
  guessing that JR is the predominant brand used and I would guess that
  digital is the way to go?  What about Cored vs. Coreless?  Also, has anyone
  had any experience with MULTIPLEX brand servos?  I have used these in the
  past in sailplanes but was wondering how these would compare to higher end
  JRs or Futabas.

  Thanks

  Dieter

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