KevinB Senior Heliman Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
| I wouldn't have believed you could have too fast a servo .....but on throttle you can. When I first built my Vibe, I put an 8717 on the throttle as well. It flew ok, but after every flight I had drops of raw fuel on the sides of the cooling shroud. Between being rich for the engine breakin and the speed of the 8717, the engine was actually 'puking' raw fuel out the carb barrel during fast load/throttle changes. I changed the servo to an 8311, hs65MG, and now a 3400G, and no more fuel on the shroud for any of them. The 3400 isn't a lot slower than the 8717. @ 4.8 its rated at .11 where the 8717 is .09, however the 3400 likely is closer to .12 with the load of ball link & carb barrel friction where the 8717 doesn't slow down for much. From this it seems the engine is capable of handling up to around .11, but .09 or faster is counter-productive. For reference, I'm currently running a ys50 with a MP5SB and the 3400G. At the time of my testing the different servos (8717,8311,hs65mg,3400G), I had a SAB-50-3D muffler on. FWIW.
Kevin |