Randy,

I decided to build it stock for now. Based on CG and other things I'm likely going to convert it to the DEPS setup. Its really easy to do and the fuse has only a couple formers back there and neither one will get in the way. Dave designed it around the servos in the tail and the YS and Hyde mount up front. I have found its better to trust the results of others than to totally re-invent the wheel all the time. Especially on a plane like this. I want to build it the way it was intended and evaluate just how good it really is. So far I'm very pleased with the way it has gone together.

If the model is tail heavy then it will get the DEPS before I fly it. I can stick the DEPS in the model in about 1 night maybe 2 if I have been flying all day long... On the DEPS a 9411SA would be a good choice here.

But if it balances out I think it will be fine. The 3421SA's are pretty good on the elevators. I have these in my Naruke Bipe. I've been happy with them, but just don't like the long setup process to get them dead on. For me the DEPS deal is a better solution. it takes me less time to setup and stays more accurate over time. As noted above if you change servos in the tail of the model. Then you need to do that all big process again. If the DEPS is installed just pop the servo in..both elevator stay synched up...and the only thing different could be a few clicks of elevator trim on the first flight with the new servo. The plane will still loop correctly because you never changed the relationship between the sides. Dual servos you are changing everything about the relations just just bolting another servo in place.

Example 2007 NATS. I was practicing a couple days before. Got done flying at near dark, and we were headed for the Texas Road house. Putting my Model in the car I bumped the elevator and stripped a gear in my single elevator servo. I replaced the servo that night. One trim flight the next day to set the elevator neutral trim position and the model flew exactly the same as it did the day before. basically in 10mins work and two passes of the flying field the model was repaired and flying the same. If that had been on the Naruke bipe, man it would have taken me an hour plus maybe two hours to get the servo replaced and the settings just right. Then I would have to fly it and make sure everything was tracking together.

I'm big on making the model easy to replace a part, change out a servo, drop in a new engine. Swap in a landing gear or the likes. I try to make it so that I can fix easily all the things that can go wrong....Don't bury a RX battery to where you can't get to it in a few minutes. Don't glue in an adjuster than could get broken off putting it in the car.

make things simple and easy to take apart and replace. For me the single servo on the DEPS is that way.

I'm putting it in the Naruke Bipe this winter.
I say a little thank you to the Ron Chidgeys' and Tony Frackowiaks' of the world every time I find something to use that works as well as the DEPS. If it had not been for seeing that on the plane Chidgey built and Tony Frackowiak had I would be still searching for a better system.

The fuse of the Focus is a perfect candidate however from what I'm seeing with the YS and the Hyde Mount up front the weight will do me good in the tail. We'll see. Cg is one of things I have not checked on the model. And we have a ton of rain coming for the weekend...so it won't fly this weekend. Maybe first of next week.

Troy Newman