tony estep wrote: > > Richard, > > There's a spreadsheet available from Blaine Beron-Rawdon that allows > you to simulate any servo hookup on-screen. But the advice in the link > that Jason sent (below) is correct. What Gordy said is wrong. For a > given mechanical advantage, the angular slop in the servo gears will be > the same no matter what the length of the arms, since extra length on > the servo arm will be de-levered by extra length on the control horn.
Confused again....I realize the angular slop isn't going to change, but for a given amount of control surface travel, won't the shorter arm mean that the servo needs to be set up to rotate further to achieve that amount of travel versus a longer servo arm? And given that, won't that mean that the amount of angular slop that's able to be transmitted to the surface will be less? For example, lets say I want 30deg of control surface travel, and my servo has 2 deg of slop. With a big arm, lets say it takes 30deg of servo movement to get the 30 deg of surface travel I want. That also means that the 2 deg of servo slop will cause 2 deg of control surface slop. Now lets say I put on a shorter arm that requires 60 deg of servo movement for the same 30 degrees of surface movement. Wouldn't that also mean that the 2 deg of anglular slop at the servo now only causes half as much (1 deg) of control surface slop? I freely admit that perhaps I'm missing something here. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
