jbeech
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Hi guys, I'm John with ProModeler and I just want to say I'm humbled at what some of you have written about our servos. Here's the background on some you've mentioned. We began with our S420. It transition to DS420 because so many folks were asking if our servo was digital (they all are, but back in the day, analog servos were still pretty common). Using DS meant folks groked they were digital. When my motor vendor offered me a more powerful and faster motor, the DS420 became the DS470BLHV and note, breaking the code is easy . . .
So I went crawling back to my old motor guy. He laughed and said, 'No hard feelings!', and offered me something new they'd been working on. This became the DS505 and best part was it cost the same as the motor in the 470 while being a little bit more powerful and faster (competitive drivers prize speed above torque). And note regarding 470, 505, 555 quite honestly, we can tell the difference in the lab but nobody on this planet could tell much difference in any 500 oz-in servo mounted in a rig. Anyway, the DS505BLHV has been in continuous production ever since. With regard to the DS630BLHV and DS930BLHV, they're just offshoots of the DS505 meaning different motors but same basic construction.
Finally, occasionally folks send me photos of their rigs in enough detail we can put together a caseSTUDY. These help guide the next guy and this is my point in stopping by. We offer these for rigs like the X-Maxx and Tekno EB48 2.0 but not the Mojave (yet). Thing is, if anybody would like to share a few photos with me, I'd be glad to put together a Mojave guide.
- DS = Digital Servo
- 470 = torque in oz-in
- BL = Brushless (CL = coreless) - click to read About RC Servo Motors if you don't know diddly about servo motor construction
- HV = High Voltage (up to 8.4V)
So I went crawling back to my old motor guy. He laughed and said, 'No hard feelings!', and offered me something new they'd been working on. This became the DS505 and best part was it cost the same as the motor in the 470 while being a little bit more powerful and faster (competitive drivers prize speed above torque). And note regarding 470, 505, 555 quite honestly, we can tell the difference in the lab but nobody on this planet could tell much difference in any 500 oz-in servo mounted in a rig. Anyway, the DS505BLHV has been in continuous production ever since. With regard to the DS630BLHV and DS930BLHV, they're just offshoots of the DS505 meaning different motors but same basic construction.
Finally, occasionally folks send me photos of their rigs in enough detail we can put together a caseSTUDY. These help guide the next guy and this is my point in stopping by. We offer these for rigs like the X-Maxx and Tekno EB48 2.0 but not the Mojave (yet). Thing is, if anybody would like to share a few photos with me, I'd be glad to put together a Mojave guide.
- Hold camera sideways, this is the landscape orientation (instead of vertically like for TikTok, which is portrait orientation)
- Don't frame too tightly, leave me plenty of breathing room around what you're showing - I'll frame it using Photoshop
- Send me the highest resolution image - 2MB is a lot better for this than 729KB
- And get a buddy, wife, or girlfriend (not at the same time), to take a photo of you holding your rig