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Buck White

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Servo travel distance
« on: February 28, 2018, 02:25:54 pm »

On my Dragon Force 65 I have found the servo for the rudder moves more in one direction than the other. This of course means more rudder on one side than the other when the transmitter stick is put hard over first to port then to starboard.
Tests with a new identical servo produced the same results.
Has anyone experienced this ?
Is there a solution ?
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Re: Servo travel distance
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2018, 02:37:55 pm »

Is the trim for the rudder in it's central position?

Or the arm on the servo in the correct alignment?
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Re: Servo travel distance
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2018, 02:47:35 pm »

I agree with ned, check your rudder end points are both the same.


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Re: Servo travel distance
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2018, 03:45:15 pm »

Yes, trim is centralised.
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Re: Servo travel distance
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2018, 05:09:13 pm »

Unless the servo and rudder horns are parallel for straight ahead, then it will always have more movement one side to the other.
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Re: Servo travel distance
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2018, 05:35:49 pm »

Simple solution really take off the servo horn and simply reatatch it to the servo as horn and servo have got fine teeth...chances are it aint central


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Re: Servo travel distance
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2018, 05:54:10 pm »

The servo can only do what the transmitter tells it to do.  If the servo arm is central with the transmitter sending "neutral" and without any settings telling it to behave differently, there should be an equal swing both ways.  If the equal servo arm swing does not result in an equal tiller movement, then something is not properly parallel, or something is catching.  I don't have one, but I've looked at a few, and things are a bit close in there.
Is it the Joysway lunch box transmitter with electronic trims or a more traditional one with mechanical slider trims?  One I saw last year had problem handling that turned out to be one of the tiny slider switches that (if memory is right) had been set to "mix".
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Re: Servo travel distance
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2018, 02:08:05 pm »

Thanks for your suggestions guys.
After checking all the ideas you made the servo still would rotate more in one direction than the other. However, working on your statement that the servo will only do what the transmitter tells it, I looked at this in more detail. Much to my surprise I found that switching off the channel operating the rudder, then switching it on again cleared the fault. So all is now OK.
Must have been some sort of channel interference I guess.
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