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<DIV>If I am understanding this correctly, the servos are actually moving the same speed (degrees/second). However, because of the mechanical setup differences, the two servos were having to travel different amounts to get the two elevator halves to move the same amount. Regardless, you are correct that a problem in the linkage geometry should never be corrected using radio settings.</DIV>
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<DIV>The step size of the 1024 Futaba radio is fixed, at 1.17us. I discovered this when I wrote about the Futaba radios in the Kfactor back in Jan '95.</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.toprudder.com/hobbies/fut7uap.pdf">http://www.toprudder.com/hobbies/fut7uap.pdf</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 2/19/09, tocdon@netscape.net <I><tocdon@netscape.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: tocdon@netscape.net <tocdon@netscape.net><BR>Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Random tip on ATV and setup<BR>To: nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 10:32 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv1984632909>Sub trim is a function that moves the servo to get the control surface centered. This in conjunction with end point adjustments can have an adverse effect on servo speeds. You are basically stretching the number of steps for the same amount of travel, among the servos. I was at the FARM club helping out a giant scale newbe last fall and he was flying a third scale H9 Extra 330 with <A title="Special deals on Futaba products, Free shipping worldwide! Please visit www.EPRacing.com" style="COLOR: black; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1px dashed; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.rcuniverse.com/buynow/keywordclick.cfm?bid_id=6405" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Futaba</A> 8 channel and Hitec servos. One of his servos literally trailed the other one by about 20 or so degrees when moving the elevators up and down in a rapid fashion. He said a servo was bad. Actually, backing up a bit- when he was flying he
asked my help to trim his plane and handed me the transmitter . When I tried some waterfalls, it peeled off really bad. When I landed, that is when I saw the elevators moving at different speeds. Upon inspection I found he used the electronic sub trim to get the servos aligned and massive atv end point to get the ends the same throw. He also had the ATVs set at nealy 150 percent. I think he was like, off one complete servo arm tooth and used the sub trim to get the servo back to center. After about 2 hours getting everything mechanically adjusted, the plane flew so much better. It went from something nearly crashing to a competitive <A title="Setup your aircraft for IMAC competition using your laptop PC and AeroPerfect's MEMS technology!" style="COLOR: black; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1px dashed; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.rcuniverse.com/buynow/keywordclick.cfm?bid_id=3854" target=_blank rel=nofollow>IMAC</A> and
3D setup. Any case, I had an identical experience when helping a flyer in Vanceboro, NC last year (after the pattern contest completed). Exact same issue on his (scal e) plane. He thought the Rx was bad until I showed him what the deal was. After mechanically adjusting to get it close, all was well.
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