matching elevators
All,
I am having some problems matching my elevators.
When I installed the elevator/stab assembly, the insidence was checked with an insidence meter. One side of the meter was on the stab and the other side on the elevator. The elevators were centered by matching the counterbalence to the stab. The insidence was off one was -1deg and the other was +2deg. This was corrected by adjusting the anti-rotation holes.
I am using an Hitec Eclipse and digital servos. I have a deflection meter as well as a digital servo programmer.
The plan was to tape CF rods to the elevators with the tips coming together behind the rudder then use the programmer to reverse/match the elevator servos.
With both elevators centered(counterbalence aligned with leading edge of stab) the CF rods do not line up. If I adjust the linkage to make them line up then one elevatoe is slightly up and the other slightly down in refrence to the stab/counterbalence alignment.
I used a calipar to set the control horn differences the same and I am using SWB arms.
If I make the carbon fiber rods match then they stay together with up elevator but do not stay together with down elevator.
This I should be able to adjust with the programmer but i would like to make sense of it first.
At this point I am kind of lost! Please Help
What is more important having the rods match or having the counterbalence-stab match?
Could I have misadjusted my insidence?