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Hextronik HXT500 - 5g Micro Servo
Specifications
Source: Most data comes from the manufacturer but some data is sourced from our loyal community.
| Last Updated: |
2025-08-08 |
| Modulation: |
Analog |
| Torque: |
4.8V: 11.10 oz-in (0.80 kg-cm)
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| Speed: |
4.8V: 0.10 sec/60°
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| Weight: |
0.17 oz (4.8 g) |
| Dimensions: |
Length:0.90 in (22.9 mm)
Width:0.45 in (11.4 mm)
Height:0.87 in (22.1 mm)
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| Motor Type: |
Coreless |
| Gear Type: |
Plastic |
| Rotation/Support: |
Bushing |
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| Typical Price: |
4.09 USD |
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Notes
- The Hextronik HXT500 is the indispensable pico-class sibling to the legendary HXT900, bringing the same philosophy of incredible value to the world of ultra-lightweight flight. This 5-gram analog servo is one of the most popular and cost-effective choices for indoor foamies, small park flyers, and lightweight sailplanes. It is engineered to be a reliable, no-frills workhorse, providing the smooth and predictable control that is essential for these delicate, weight-sensitive models. The HXT500's primary contribution to the hobby is making micro-flight accessible to absolutely everyone, regardless of budget.
- The core identity of the HXT500 is its role as the ultimate enabler for creativity in micro-aviation. Its rock-bottom price and reliable performance have empowered a generation of scratch-builders to experiment and innovate without fear of costly crashes. It is the servo that powers thousands of fun, imaginative, and inexpensive flying machines, from simple indoor flyers to intricate micro-scale models. It has proven, time and again, to be a surprisingly durable and consistent performer for its intended low-stress applications.
- For the robotics maker and student, the Hextronik HXT500 is an essential tool. Its extremely low cost makes it possible to build complex, multi-servo micro-robots, such as small hexapods or insectoids, that would be financially prohibitive with premium servos. It is the perfect actuator for learning the fundamentals of micro-mechatronics and for projects where quantity, low weight, and minimal cost are the most important design drivers.
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Reviews of Hextronik HXT500 (8)
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Application(s): Park flyers below 500g AUW
Comments: These are not bad servos for the price, but unlike the larger HXT900s, they do strip gears regularly. Over time all the HXT500s that I have installed in larger planes have stripped their gears...and all in exactly the same way. Interestingly, the gears do not fail from too large a force being applied to the control surface in flight or the control surface getting deflected in a crash, but rather when the whole airframe is 'jolted' in a hard landing and that sudden 'shock' (possibly transmitted through the control surface)seems to make short work of the gears.
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Application(s): robotics
Comments: this small piece really surprised me. for its nifty price i thought it would have been a failed purchase, but it's been great working with it. :]
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Application(s): small flying wing
Comments: Excellent on my mini swift!
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Application(s): Aileron in Alula Evo
Comments: robust cheap and reliable servo.
Even runs on single cell lipo in my alula SAL.
(Centering is generally ok but maybe not perfect for this application.)
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Application(s): Foamies tail feathers and aeleron
Comments: Great for park flyejrs and foamies...
On more expencive planes I use hitech 45hb
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Application(s): small planes or delta
Comments: used this servos all the summer whitout problems;
last week i fly by low temperature around 0 ° celcius and servos worked , stopped , worked .... and i crashed !!
did some one have same bad experiences in winter ??
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Application(s): Indoor scratch built foamies
Comments: Nice not to have to consider the servos as a major part of your investment. These are excellent servos and really cheap.Buy 'em by the handful!
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Application(s): Park jet and indoor foamy
Comments: This is *the* standard servo for foamy park flyer scratch builders. Look anywhere on RCGroups, Wattflyer, RCUniverse, etc. You'll see this servo all over the world and in every conceivable aircraft.
I have used dozens of these servos, have installed them on lots of planes built for others, and have recommended them to everybody I know scratch building planes. The only ones that have failed have been driven into the ground under power or destroyed through other violent abuse. At three bucks fifty apiece you can afford to build a lot more planes.
I would also like to mention that the actual measured weight of the servo with its cable and connector is 6.4 grams, not the 4.8 listed by the OEM. (Confirmed on two different digital scales.)
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