NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

PLEASE HELP I AM PUTTING FLAPS ON MY NEW KIT AND HAVE PUT IN THE SERVOS AS SHOWN IN THE PLANS BUT I HAVE CHANNEL 6 ON MY TX FOR FLAPS SO I USED A Y LEAD TO GET TO THE SERVO IN EACH WING BUT THEY ACT LIKE THE AILERONS ONE GOES UP AND ONE FLAP GOES DOWN WHEN I FLICK THE FLAP SWITCH HOW DO I GET THEM BOTH TO GO DOWN ON ONE CHANNEL

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

I had a similar problem with a two servo elevator in a katana. The two ways i can help you with are 1 buy aservo reverser 2 open the servo base and reverse the motor wires and swap the two outer wires on the potentiometer or where the wires mount on the pc board or cut wires and join and insulate them. Proper soldering is important and both, motor and pot, must be done not one or the other because servo will fight itself.
David

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

How are servos mounted? Surface mount where top of servo sticks out of wing, or on a hatch where only servo arm sticks out? If surface mount, put arm on the other way. Will look strange but will work, will require relocating control horn. Same deal if in hatch, but only if slot in hatch is straight. If at an angle because of wing shape, etc, won't work. Just take one hatch out and re-install other way around. Again might require relocating control horn.

Andy

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

If you put each aileron servo on seperate leads to the Rx you should achieve the desired result. Also make sure yout Tx is setup for flap operation. Ex. on the Futaba 6EXA, you have to set FP on the W.MIX mode. Yours may differ, check your manual for info. Good Luck. [8D]

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

Just connect one flap to the other side of the servo horn. (Move the flap horn if need be)

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

:D SORTED THANKS FUNNY HOW SIMPLE THINGS CAN BE WHEN WHEN YOU KNOW HOW.
THANK YOU ALL.

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

ill make it easy on you...both servos have to be the same...arms on the same .....ill try a pic for you...



[]- []- box is the servo,,and the dash is the arm,,this is for flaps

-[] []- for the aler.


...Do you see it???? hope it help'd Cublover

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

Well, if we're drawing pics...

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

Mike comes through again. ;)

JMC,
Welcome to RCU. It's a great place and you'll get all sorts of useful (and useless) info., but I'd ask that you not type in all capital letters. They're more difficult to read and make it appear as though you're SHOUTING! :)
Dennis-

RE: NEED HELP WITH FLAPS
 

So called "NETiquette"
Luis