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Old 08-21-2006 | 07:25 PM
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jon595
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Default RE: Matching Elevator Travels

Sillyness posted this a while ago. It worked for me on 2 different planes. You only need to set your ATV and subtrims. Both elevator halves track evenly throughout their travel using the "stick method". When you are finished you will notice that your servo arms are angled back just a bit. I use JR 10x w/ 8611 and 8411 servos on elev.


"Set your ATVs to approx 130% up and down (130% is for JR... may need to use slightly less on Futaba or Multiplex) to allow room for subtrim. Then I roughly center the surface with subtrim. Measure up and down throw. If you have more up than down, then shorten the pushrod (and vise versa). Now, re-center the surface with subtrim, but do not touch the ATVs... leave them alone at 130ish%!!! Re-measure up and down throw and repeat the above proccess until the surface moves the same amount up and down. Your servo arms will likely be tipped slightly toward the rear when done, but it depends on your geometry. If you end up using excessive subtrim you may need to rotate the servo arm 1 spline one way or the other. Look at your servo monitor page to make sure you aren't over-driving a servo (i.e. a servo stops before the stick reaches full travel).

The result is a setup where both halves will travel at exactly the same speed and they'll track together perfectly throughout the range of motion.... very linear. Mixing out the differential in the radio CAN give you a setup where the surface might match at the ends, but they are off at in-between throws. Been there. "