RE: Building a Cularis
Hi Cularis experts - I'm a newbie to the Cularis, after flying the EasyGlider and wanted take my soaring experience to the next level. I'm pretty eager to get this thing flying.
Ihave to admit the this project is a little more complex than I thought it would be. To keep things real simple I went with:
*Cularis flight pack (2 mini HiTec servos and 4 nano hiTec Servos), used servos only
*Cularis power pack (motor, ESC)
*Futaba 7C2.4G radio (tx and receiver only)
I realized last night my flaps are going in two different directions - Igot a Y-harness to control both flaps with one servo. There's a nice dial (channel 6)in the 7C that I would like to use to control flaps. But right now, that dial's gonna make my Cularis roll.
After looking around online(including this board) it seems my options are to:
1) Mount one of the flap servos so it's parallel (rather than mirror to) the other flap servo. > But I prepfer not to rip out the servo from the wing and dig another mounting hole at this point, and there's something about a symmetrical setup that appeals to me.
2)Reverse the servo by re soldering the motor inside > Those nano servos are really tiny, my guess is I'll probably mess this up.
3) Dedicate two channels to flaps. > Since Ihave 7 channels, this seems to be the most elegant solution. Except the 7C doesn't seem to support it. It's just ironic to have so many channels yet not be able to solve this. I could use the y-harness to control the two ailerons with one channel. But the 7C still doesn't have a 2 channel flap function as far as I can tell (all those mixing features don't seem relevant here).
With so many Cularises out there, Iwould have thought this would be very straight forward. Am Imissing any options? Any useful ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ed