KST DS215 on photos 500 plastic?

[kyoz843]

I'll mostly be practicing and doing light sport flying. So will the DS215s be sufficient enough for this heli? Considering it's so light? Thanks.

[kyoz843]

How about these?
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...d=261532605151

[DoubleCH]

I run HobbyKing TGY-S-306G-HVs which are essentially the same as the KST DS215MGs for cyclic. They work fine for my stretch setup but these are not just any blades but very light narrow-chord almost-centerline-CG'ed 470mm blades which means they require less cyclic servo force to drive than even 430mm FB blades. I have also run these servos no problem with my Revolution 430mm FB (not FBL) blades which require more force to drive but I've only had these blades on with the S306Gs for maybe 30 flights. I have well over 1000 flights with these servos and my 470mm blades. Before putting on this heli, this set of S306Gs had also had many hundreds of flights on my 450 and my 300. I have absolutely no concern of these micro-sized servos with my setup but I cannot say the same from experience if they spend the same amount of flights with some 430 FBL blades although I expect they will work just fine also. If you decide to run these servos I recommend you run good external BEC because these micro-sized servos are more power-hungry than some mini servos. With these S306Gs and Savox full size SH-1290MG tail servo my stock YGE 60A ESC's BEC would brownout when I loaded up the servos on the bench.

[jbaum81]

The 215's are a Micro? servo for 450 class machines, the Protos 500 takes mini servo's, the 215's wont fit. Check out the 5 series KST servos for your Protos 500.

[DoubleCH]

I forgot to mention that I had to make minor mod to the CF frame to fit the micro servos. Not sure how feasible it is with the plastic frame.