I am in the process of assembling my H-9 Edge and am a bit skeptical of the elevator push-rod assembly using the piece of spruce wood.

Any alternatives? What about two elevator servos with a y-harness and with individual push-rods? Any other suggestions?


Thanks!

mpowrmnt, I put two elevator servos in the stock servo location of my Cap (basically same tail as the 540) and ran fiberglass pushrods straight back to each elevator half. No Y's. I think it's a great setup for these planes.

or you can put the servos in the tail...some need the tail weight..

Scott

This could be a dumb question, but if I have two elevator servos, won't I need to plug them into a y-harness and then plug the y into the second channel of the receiver? I am somewhat new to planes (but have been into RC for twenty years). I am using a Futaba T6XAS.

Thanks.

only if you dont have a radio that will allow you to mix the two appropiate chanels..i wouldnt use a reversing servo reverser..re-wire the servo internally to reverse..call your manufacture to find out which wires.

scott

mpowrmnt,

I have a T6XA which I think is very similar to your T6XAS.

I just did a bit of playing and this is what I would do:

Assumptions:

1) You will need two channels for aileron (1 & 6) and elevator (2 & 5).


Procedure:

(1) You will need to disable the GEAR (ch5) switch...otherwise this could inadvertently cause the elv half on ch5 to deflect if you accidentally hit the switch. To do this use one of you Pmix function and choose master and slave as ch5. Now set the r/u and l/u to "-" 100%. Of course you need to turn the function "ON". Now the gear switch should have no effect.

(2) Now choose another pmix to mix elv ch2 with elv ch5. This is pretty straight forward and generally requires one to choose the desired amount of travel. Depending on your physical installation either ch2 or ch5 may need to be reversed. To do this go to the REV menu section and do the do.

(3) For ailerons choose FLPR function which mixes ch1 with ch6.

This should take care of the ailerons and elevator leaving ch3=throttle and ch4=rudder.

Now your out of channels. Congrats!

There may be another way, but I think this should work pretty good. Let me know I'll be curious

Mike