Bob,
I haven't started mine yet since I plan to install the new Pletty Advanced 30 and it is not yet available. I also need to order my elevator servos, which I'll do when the motor is available. However I did order BVM canopy hooks. I should get these in a couple of days, so I'll start work on the canopy as well as do what I can fabricating the spinner backplate spacer this weekend. I did purchase my charge box case this afternoon. I decided to purchase one of those aluminum boxes where the lid is split in two down the center and hinged on both sides (Harbor Freight). Since I have my power supplies and Celpro PL8 I'll work on the charge box now also.
Glen
Glen
Which elevator servos do you plan to use? The S9650's fit with a minimum of whittling of the plywood. The servo arm exit hole has to be opened up a fair amount, and would have to have been opened up even more without making a bend in the linkage. I chose the servo arm length that gave me a maximum throw of 14 degrees with full servo travel range (as recommended by some guy named Bryan Hebert
).
I will solder up a 4-wire servo extension for the 2 elevator servos, with one power, one ground and 2 signal.
I got to try out my charge box in the field about 10 days ago and it worked out very well. Can't tell you what a pleasure it is to have plenty of charging capacity to fly virtually non-stop all day and not have to worry about killing a car battery or having to re-charge a giant lead-acid battery later. But you will soon find out!
