egg motor?

[Ali]

is it possible to buy a faster servo for an egg?
i was thinking of buying the same sized servo but faster from a modle shop.
will it work if its possible?

thank you

 

[Skeet]

To a point. There was a time when people used to use lots of motors and find the best ones, as not all Servo's are made equal.

Bit pointless though, with all the other loaders that are available now.

 

[Ali]

ok thanks, just rughly do you know how much a motor fast enough to keep up with a reloader b will cost?

 

[Scars]

the way the egg operates it will never be as quick as a reloader, Eggs arent a true forcefeed design

 

[Ali]

ok fair enough, im taking it as skeet says that i can buy a faster motor for it right?

 

[Gee Tee]

Older eggs feed up to 19bps, but a Z board egg will feed to 23bps. Fast hoppers are so cheap now it's hardly worth blowing cash to upgrade the board on an egg. If you want a force feed design than you'll have to go for something like a vlocity, empire, halo or pulse.

 

[Ali]

oh right because im gonna be spending all my money hopefully on a dm7 so i wont have enough for a new hopper so i was thinking of putting a faster motor.

 

[Morrolan]

If you do decide to replace the servo in your egg, be careful at a model shop!

A standard model servo is no good as they are designed to travel at most, 180 degrees. What you need is a continuous rotation servo, but again beware as they aren't powered by a simple on/off signal, but by a pulse modulated signal sent every 20ms or so, lasting between 0.5 - 2.5ms in length.

As an electronics engineer, my advice is save the disappointment and spend a little extra for a new loader...