I been working on a Yellow Aircraft Edge 540T and now am at the part for the control rods. In the directions it shows to use a wooden control rod with 2 thread rods splitting out the end. Kind of like a "Y" I have it installed but really don't like the way it works to well.

I was thinking about just installing 2 servos one for each side and just using way shorter control rods. Has anyone else tried this splitter type control rod before? I was wondering if it will cause my problems later. It just seems like I will never have true control of each side at same time.

I made a quick drawing of it below.

Cobra, I had the same problem on my AT-6. While two servos in the tail will work, unless your plane is already nose-heavy, you'll need considerable weight in the nose to balance.

If possible, make a lite-ply pushrod support with a hole a bit larger than the dowel, slide it down the fuselage and epoxy it across a former about halfway down. This will limit side play in the pushrod.

And/or, make a wire joiner and join the elevator halves together anyway, if its not too late.

Good Luck.

You could try a BellCrank.... I saw a post by a guy with a highly modified Ultra Stick (I believe it was) that had a very useful Bellcrank assembly at the tail. You could run a very rigid CF Pushrod to it and have two short runs to the elevators.
If your CG is an issue, you could still use two servos with one longer pushrod each. Just have them in the main portion of the fuse. Personally I think that would even be better than the rig you showed... I really hate those split PR designs.....

Nice piece of equipment......

Pug

I did try to make a support half way down the fuse. It did help it out a lot and now moves much better. But still just don't like the idea.

I seen the post with the bell-crank idea. I may try that out, if not use the extra servo. But this time running 2 push-rods half the length.

If you have room up front,you could put two ele.servos up front with two pushrods.I really don't like adding weight to a plane,if it were me I would put two Hitec HS 225mg mini servos in the tail,with a pull pull set up on the rudder up front.It really depends on how the model balances,with a glow engine up front you should be able to move all your radio eqipment up front to offset the balance.The two 225's are about equal to one standard servo.JMO
Mike