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Old 03-03-2015 | 12:10 PM
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hsukaria
 
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Originally Posted by stegl
Have to agree with the statement on vibration being he hardest thing on the onboard electronics. Vibration can cause all sorts of stress related wire to individual component breakage. Minimizing the complexity of the system is sometimes the best thing. I do like the split elevator idea and try and incorporate when possible but on the other hand when you get a hard over on any one servo you are pretty much "cooked" !
Agreed. Now if there were some "smarts" that could be added to servos to detect hard-over failures and shut off power to itself, that would really help. Then the servo would be partly or totally re-centered from aerodynamic forces on the control surface, maybe.