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Old 02-20-2010 | 08:17 PM
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Default RE: Austars 97

Finished fitting the electronics.
All the servo extentions have been secured with some heat shrink for safety.
Usually use the multiplex 6pin plug for connecting the wing wires to the fus, 1 plug does all and is easy and practical to use, each plug has 1 aileron and flap servo.
Then made up a harness to go from the RX to the wing plug, ensure you have the polarity and signal wires correct using a mulitmeter before plugging it in to the wing. Each harness drives 1 aileron and 1 flap.

The switches are a snack to fit as all the holes are precut for you, a normal small switch and 2 larger EMS type switches on both sides of the fus, just cut the covering leaving about 3/16 of overlap and insert the switch, nothing could be easier.
Used ESM type switches for RX and 1 for the ignition circuit. The batteries are cable tied to the wing joiner box, giving the correct CG with no added lead.

Setup the igniton circuit using a 5cell NimH pack running to the switch, then to a hextronic voltage regulator set to 5volts, to an RCxel opto cutout switch to ignition.
The switch enables the whole system to be shut off and the cutout switch lets you kill the ignition from your radio.

Checked that everything works and then cable tie and tidy up the wiring using some spaghetti wrap.

The fuel tank hangs from its own tray over the CG and I like to use the Dubro Kwik fill valves giving easy no fuss fueling. The tank is wrapped in non slip material and velcroed to the tray.
Cheers Paul
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