with in the next week or so i will be buying a v2 50cc edge, id like to know how long the aileron extensions need to be as well as the elevator extensions.

could someone please help me.... i did a search but couldn't find useful info

thanks in advance
e.r.

About 18" for the ailerons and 24" for the elevators. Just get 24" to keep it simple and provide some room for locating the receiver. It's 28% btw.

You could buy some bulk servo wire and cut the plug off your servo and make the lead exactly the length you need and solder the end back on. NO connections to come apart either..

i thought about that, its very economical... thanks

I have done it on my last 3 or 4 birds and it has worked GREAT! Dont have to worry about a connection coming loose, or the pins limiting power to the servo. Takes some of the worrys out of it for me!

very true...




what size spinner does the 28% edge use?

3-1/2" seems to work out pretty well on the Extra and the Edge.

Thanks pat




do you know if there is a website that has the manual online so i could get a look at it before hand?

http://wildharerc.com/downloads/docu...-84-detail.pdf

and

http://wildharerc.com/downloads/docu...ric-manual.pdf

TF

thanks tom, i looked on your website and couldnt find it...


i know this is a public forum, and not a place to discuss business, could you PM me or email the shipping estimate to 78537(south texas) and the hardware package price, i also couldnt find that info on your website

Hardware kit is $75, shipping is about the same or a little less in Texas.

TF

i'd like to use robart hinges... this will be my biggest plane yet, my biggest plane a maxxair velox has 1/8 hinges, could i use the same for the 50cc edge or should i use 3/8"?

The plane comes with 3/16" hinges.

TF

thanks Tom... i ordered a 5" bellcrank, would that fit in the 50 cc edge?

I am also assembling an WG 540 edge. I noticed the Pull-Pull rudder control horns are long and limit the movement of the rubber (they hit side of fuse). On my edgs the horn is out about 1 inch from rudder (to outside edge of horn and bolt is even), Has anybody else noticed this and what did you do about it? Will I getting enough movement on the rudder any way? I have not measured the movement of the rudder as I have just installed the horns.
Thanks

First of all, on my WH 540, the bolt that came in the hardware package was 3" long. When you thread the horns on, the center to center distance is about 2 1/2". My servo horn is 3" center to center. So to keep these even, I used a bolt that's 3 1/2" long so as to keep my center to center the same as my servo horn measurment. Make sure your distance's are equal on both ends if your using a pull/pull setup.

Is there 2 holes in the plastic rudder horns? (Memory lapse) If there was, I think I used the inner one and ground off the extra to shorten the horn.

A 3" rudder tiller is the most that will ever be needed in any of the 50cc planes. A 5" rudder arm is waaaay too long! I use SWB rudder tillers, Tom uses AirWild. Your choice. If you are in a mood to really save money you can use the long Hitec double arm that comes with their digital servos but you can't use ball links on that one because it can bend and break. Clevises work just fine in that case. Grinding any excess length of an expensive aluminum servo arm means you can't use it later on a plane that may need a longer arm. 1/4" of aluminum servo does not weigh enough to be concerned about.

The Dubro rudder horns that are provided in the hardware package are intended to be drilled for the clevis in line with the rudder hinge line on the airplane with the excess plastic tab removed by the user. It's well covered in the text portion of the instruction manual.

If you purchase 1-1/4" aluminum servo arms from one of the manufacturers, set your linkage up at the 1-1/8" hole on the arm with the linkage on the elevator or aileron at the same relative location, as measured from the hinge center line, on the wing or horizontal stab. You can be farther out on the surface side of the linkage but don't be less unless you intend to give the flight surface a mechanical advantage over the servo. You don't want to do that.

thanks for the replies, ill use 4 inches or less


and ill sell/give my brother the 5" airwild one i ordered

Stay with the "or less" part. A` servo's torque rating is derived by using a distance of 1" from the output shaft. Distances outward of 1" from the output shaft are automatically reductions in the servo's useful torque. I sometimes use a 4" arm on a 35% plane and frankly, it's not needed. 3" works fine even on my ganged rudder servo installations. The one I'm setting up now uses a 2-1/2" arm for torque and deflection reasons.

On the Edge you shouldn't need to have a spread any greater than about 2-1/4 to 2-3/4" at the rudder horns. The same distance would be used at the rudder servo arm. After 7 of the 28-29% planes I've gotten it down to a science.