Re: [RCSE] Banos F3F... who goin?
I would like to inject a note here that although most subscribers to RCSE seem to be clairvoyant, not all of us are. For the rest of us handicapped glider guiders, could you please consider your requests/advertisements from the point of view of someone who may be interested but might not know everything you do about the item in question. For instance: Eric, who is apparently trying to bum a ride to Los Banos, FROM WHERE? Cleveland? Miami? Sacramento? Seattle? Stockholm? If you want a response, give a clue. Mark, who is apparantly trying to plug "the REAL race", When? "May" is a broad target. You did include the location, Davenport (what state?), but would it be so hard to complete the info with the date? (May 6-7). And maybe even a pointer to where they can learn more, like directions or registration. If you are trying to attract participants, why make people search out what they need? And why plug your event at the expense of someone else? There is no obvious reason Eric can't go to both. Why disuade him from from going to 'Banos? In my naive opinion it would seem that cultivating an interest in slope racing benefits both events. Often there are events advertised in RCSE and even magazine ads that seem to assume that everyone knows where club acroynom-du-jur is based and where lake Whatchamacallit is located. No doubt the in-crowd does, but if you would like the crowd to get bigger, consider others. I'm not trying to flame on the two individuals. These posts just touched a nerve. Could people posting to this exchange please keep in mind that these messages go to some 1200 people all over the world and not all are up to speed on every acronym and location. This is especially important if you are advertising something and would like the broadest participation. The whole point of advertising is that people not already involved MIGHT be interested if you let them know. The harder you make them work to get what they need, the less likely they will be to respond. Rick, RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] Futaba tx modules synthesized?
Yes, just get modules for the channles you use. The main idea with the modules is to make it easy to change channels without the need to have the Tx tuned. Each module has been factory tuned to be right on freq. for the crystal in the module. So the Tx doesn't have anything in it to affect the output freq. If you used a module in a Tx that it was not design for, that Tx could have higher signal levels to drive its module. This would over drive the module and cause interference to other channels. (like the Hitec synthesized module in the Futaba Tx) Howard SLC, UT. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a used Futaba 8uaf which comes with a module on channel 56. My stuff all is either on channel 42 or 52. Is it safe to get modules on either of these channels without having to send my transmitter back for retuning? Are the modules themselves tuned to prevent this? I hate to have to tear open any of my slopers to change a crystal. Thanks, Greg RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] V-Tail Mixer
Dymond in Oshkosh Wisconsin has these for $15.95. phone number is 1-888-4FUN FLY. Rich Ness St Paul MN -Original Message- From: Gary and Tracy Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:07 PM Subject: [RCSE] V-Tail Mixer About a year ago I looked at a small V-tail hand-launch at one of the glider club events. If I remember right it had a electronic mixer that you plugged into the receiver and it Y harnessed to two micro servos. Does any one know where I can get such a device. Thanks Gary RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] Constant trim drift with new radio set
What brand servos are you using? A lot of us here in NZ are having this exact problem. I'm pretty sure it's not the Rx as some use Futaba, some JR, some PCM, some FM. The one thing in common is that all the servos have blue cases... I have 4 hitec HS85MG servos in the wings, and two hitec HS85BB servos in the fuse to drive the V-tail via dubro cables. Any chance that your flaps have some slop in the linkages? I am assuming that they are gap sealed with tape? On launch its quite possible that your servos do no thave sufficient torque to maintain the flap as you set it. This kit (Sierra 2.5) uses the hitec universal housings, (short round cylinders that insert into cylindrical wing cavities)...the linkage on the wings is very short (about 3 inches)... and there's no slop... HS85MG's are supposed to be reasonably strong... RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] Constant trim drift with new radio set
Jeff Reid wrote: I just got my first full-house glider, a Hobby Shack Sierra 2.5, it's flying OK, but when I first start a session I have to keep sub-trimming one or two out of the six servos, usually the flaps, in order to get them "re-centered". Hi Jeff, I'd put money on the servos if all linkage and the servos are fixed solidly. I fly a 9Z with the 148 receivers. In my 2Meter Sisu I have HS85's on the flaps and the subtrimming is a constant task. Although they seem to be strong and fairly reliable I don't think they are as good as the JR 341/351 or some of the others. I don't have the problem with my JR servos or Volz. Darwin N. Barrie Scottsdale AZ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] V-Tail Mixer
Hobby Shack makes the smallest V tail mixer for the wattage slow flyer that works. I f you want the best then the Ohmark mixer is great you can adjust the it from 25% to 100% rates in .25 steps.Thermal Gromit works sell it for $39.99/ Later, Terry Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Soaring Tools the EPP info website http://www.geocities.com/soaringtools/ - Original Message - From: "Gary and Tracy Humphrey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:05 PM Subject: [RCSE] V-Tail Mixer About a year ago I looked at a small V-tail hand-launch at one of the glider club events. If I remember right it had a electronic mixer that you plugged into the receiver and it Y harnessed to two micro servos. Does any one know where I can get such a device. Thanks Gary RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[RCSE] CG for a Champion HLG
In Soaring V1 #1033, "Juan Cifuentes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked "Anyone flown a Champion HLG and can recommend CG location? I have set it up following manufacturer's instructions but it does not work." I have not flown this model, and I don't know what the plans say, but it happens that I have measured the plans for this model (owned by Dick Schilling (of this list)) and have it in the "Plane Geometry" database. A quick peek with the program indicates that a reasonable CG range for this little model is from 2.62 to 3.21 inches (6.65 to 8.15 cm) behind the leading edge at the wing root on the centerline. This corresponds to a static margin of 20% to 10% mean aerodynamic chord. The length of the MAC is 5.88 inches (14.94 cm). The neutral point is at 0.51 Cmac. I would suggest starting at the forward CG location and gradually working my way back until the launch zoom and other pitch behavior is good. For more info on "Plane Geometry", please email me or check out: http://www.rc-soar.com/hardsoft/planegeo.htm That's all for now. Blaine Beron-Rawdon Envision Design San Pedro, California RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] Banos F3F... who goin?
Gee I wish I could pick on a teenage boy trying to bum a ride to Los Banos california for a F3F race. Maybe we should all be required to sign with a signature line like mine so you can find me on a map. Later, Terry Trimble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Soaring Tools the EPP info website http://www.geocities.com/soaringtools/ Encinitas, California latitude 33.06548 longitude -177.29652 - Original Message - From: "Rick Wardrop" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Banos F3F... who goin? I would like to inject a note here that although most subscribers to RCSE seem to be clairvoyant, not all of us are. For the rest of us handicapped glider guiders, could you please consider your requests/advertisements from the point of view of someone who may be interested but might not know everything you do about the item in question. For instance: Eric, who is apparently trying to bum a ride to Los Banos, FROM WHERE? Cleveland? Miami? Sacramento? Seattle? Stockholm? If you want a response, give a clue. Mark, who is apparantly trying to plug "the REAL race", When? "May" is a broad target. You did include the location, Davenport (what state?), but would it be so hard to complete the info with the date? (May 6-7). And maybe even a pointer to where they can learn more, like directions or registration. If you are trying to attract participants, why make people search out what they need? And why plug your event at the expense of someone else? There is no obvious reason Eric can't go to both. Why disuade him from from going to 'Banos? In my naive opinion it would seem that cultivating an interest in slope racing benefits both events. Often there are events advertised in RCSE and even magazine ads that seem to assume that everyone knows where club acroynom-du-jur is based and where lake Whatchamacallit is located. No doubt the in-crowd does, but if you would like the crowd to get bigger, consider others. I'm not trying to flame on the two individuals. These posts just touched a nerve. Could people posting to this exchange please keep in mind that these messages go to some 1200 people all over the world and not all are up to speed on every acronym and location. This is especially important if you are advertising something and would like the broadest participation. The whole point of advertising is that people not already involved MIGHT be interested if you let them know. The harder you make them work to get what they need, the less likely they will be to respond. Rick, RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] Acetone and Mylars
Jeff, do it the simple way.. When you wax the outside of your Mylars, use carnauba car wax and apply it generously. Let it hase but do not buff it off. Any resin that creeps onto the mylars will come right off. Wax and buff three times on the inside though. Clean the Mylars off with lacquer thinner or acetone or MEK. You can not hurt them... That's why people use the stuff.. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] Constant trim drift with new radio set
Im having this excact problem with my HS85MG servos. Great servos for the buck, but theire accuracy is "what you pay for". The best way to reduce the problem is to make the linkages so that you use the hole (or at least as much as possible) of the servo travel to get youre preferred throw. This makes the problem smaller, but I have to adjust the center pos on mine each time I go flying. Regards Kjelli From: Jeff Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Constant trim drift with new radio set Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:01:13 -0800 What brand servos are you using? A lot of us here in NZ are having this exact problem. I'm pretty sure it's not the Rx as some use Futaba, some JR, some PCM, some FM. The one thing in common is that all the servos have blue cases... I have 4 hitec HS85MG servos in the wings, and two hitec HS85BB servos in the fuse to drive the V-tail via dubro cables. Any chance that your flaps have some slop in the linkages? I am assuming that they are gap sealed with tape? On launch its quite possible that your servos do no thave sufficient torque to maintain the flap as you set it. This kit (Sierra 2.5) uses the hitec universal housings, (short round cylinders that insert into cylindrical wing cavities)...the linkage on the wings is very short (about 3 inches)... and there's no slop... HS85MG's are supposed to be reasonably strong... RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] Constant trim drift with new radio set
In a message dated 3/31/00 12:30:09 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Im having this excact problem with my HS85MG servos. Great servos for the buck, but theire accuracy is "what you pay for". I have to disagree, I have no less than 12 Hs-85s in service (about half metal gear) for about a year and a half withou ever having this trouble. I fly them in everything from electrics to Scale to TD ships without any problems. Kristopher RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RCSE] Constant trim drift with new radio set
Then maybe you got a good "batch" of them. In our club we have around 50 of these servos (as I know of), some got the problem, some don´t. We have just accepted this for a fact with these servos. And use them for smaller planes and 1,5m slopeplanes. Use the whole servotravel and the problem is minimal. Put som Zap in those linkages to remove slop. Most of us in our club have the same TXs and RXs. Fact is, cheap servos are cheap for a reason. Kjelli. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Constant trim drift with new radio set Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:38:14 EST In a message dated 3/31/00 12:30:09 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Im having this excact problem with my HS85MG servos. Great servos for the buck, but theire accuracy is "what you pay for". I have to disagree, I have no less than 12 Hs-85s in service (about half metal gear) for about a year and a half withou ever having this trouble. I fly them in everything from electrics to Scale to TD ships without any problems. Kristopher RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: R: [RCSE] 4 vs 5 cell battery
This is really taking off. Everything from voltage regulators to discharge 5% of the pack before flying. Is it just me or does all this sounds silly? The original question was about a Futaba RX who acted crazy with a 5 cell pack. And it has been established that some RX´s can´t handle the 7.5 V a fully charged pack gives. If you want to use a 5cell pack in youre plane you cant use a RX who is not designed to operate on a 5 cell. Simple and easy. Forget voltage regulators and discharging some of the pack´s capacity. Take the RX and put it in a plane who uses a 4 cell pack. As for the plane with the 5 cell pack, use another RX who is designed for a 5 Cell pack. There are many. Of course this is only my humble opinion :) thermals Kjelli __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
