Servo oscillation help

[John Ferrell]

Sometimes unplugging and replugging will fix the problem too. 
John Ferrell    
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Simes" <nsrca at shinymetalass.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: Servo oscillation help


> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:13:52 -0700
> "Troy A. Newman" <troy_newman at msn.com> wrote:
> 
>> Bad or poor quality servo extension lead will cause this too. A Heavy
>> control surface can cause it as well. Although that servo is the not
>> most precise I would not think it would be fighting itself to find
>> center. A higher precision servo could show this sign as they are very
>> accurate around center. Not saying to replace the servo just saying
>> that lots of things can cause this and saying that the servo deadband
>> being too tight is probably not one of those things on that
>> servo....The reason being is those servos are not super digital
>> precision....
>> 
>> I would replace the extension leads and se if that solves it! I have
>> found similar stuff with aftermarket leads. Several companies are
>> selling them pretty cheap and I have found that many cases they just
>> are not up to snuff. I choose only JR gold HD extensions. Even in
>> Jenny's trainer I swapped out the extension for Ailerons to a HD gold
>> version.
> 
> Thanks Troy - the servo extension is an easy to check possibility that
> hadn't even occurred to me!  I don't think the surface is too heavy -
> this is a .40 size Sig Somethin' Extra that I've been practicing the
> sportsman sequence with all winter (on skis no less).  Don't laugh too
> hard - the plane is capable of flying the sequence quite a bit better
> than I am at this point ;-)  Besides, I've got one side doing it and the
> other side not with the same servos in both sides.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom
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