Guys and gals,
We are presently installing the aileron controls in the left wing and I thought that mounting the autopilot roll servo in this wing might be a good idea. We were looking for locations for the servo and thought that the second inspection panel out from the root might be a good spot.
Then I got reading the Trio installation manual, and they talked about clamping the servo actuator rod to a section of the control system that had NO ROTATION in it's travel.. We manually rolled the main (big) tube to the aileron bellcrank and it rocked back and forth. Hmmmmm. Maybe no good?? Then I thought, "What about when the pushrod tube is connected to the torque tube under the stick, would it still rock then?" The other bearing is oriented in the vertical plane and the bellcrank bearing in the horizontal plane. Of course we cannot hook the pushrod tubing up to the stick/torque tube because the fuselage is in the hangar and has nothing in it anyway.
Can anybody answer this question or does anybody have experience in mounting the servo out in the wing, and how did you do it.
Cheers, and thanks,
Pete
We are presently installing the aileron controls in the left wing and I thought that mounting the autopilot roll servo in this wing might be a good idea. We were looking for locations for the servo and thought that the second inspection panel out from the root might be a good spot.
Then I got reading the Trio installation manual, and they talked about clamping the servo actuator rod to a section of the control system that had NO ROTATION in it's travel.. We manually rolled the main (big) tube to the aileron bellcrank and it rocked back and forth. Hmmmmm. Maybe no good?? Then I thought, "What about when the pushrod tube is connected to the torque tube under the stick, would it still rock then?" The other bearing is oriented in the vertical plane and the bellcrank bearing in the horizontal plane. Of course we cannot hook the pushrod tubing up to the stick/torque tube because the fuselage is in the hangar and has nothing in it anyway.
Can anybody answer this question or does anybody have experience in mounting the servo out in the wing, and how did you do it.
Cheers, and thanks,
Pete