Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-23 Thread Chuck Anderson
At 09:23 PM 2/21/2006, Mark Drela wrote: The all-moving Supra stab is aerodynamically balanced, so the stab servo loads from the airload are minimal. The only loads the stab servo will see is due to the inertial load when the boom "cracks the whip" in the zoom. That is one of the reasons my s

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Drela
>What about elevator loads? And elevator servo moment? How would >that be calculated? The all-moving Supra stab is aerodynamically balanced, so the stab servo loads from the airload are minimal. The only loads the stab servo will see is due to the inertial load when the boom "cracks the whip"

RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Drela
>Did anyone else notice that the calculated flap servo torque requirement (62 >in-oz) is higher than the specs on all commonly used servos other than the >Volz Micro Maxx HP. The JR DS368 is spec'ed at 53 oz-in. The thin wing >servos, JR DS-168 and Hitec equivalent at 46.6 oz-in. Two comments: 1

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-22 Thread Jo Grini
: www.jojoen.no -- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:52:58 -0600 From: S Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Drela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! Message-ID: &l

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-21 Thread Raschow
In a message dated 2/21/2006 10:44:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 99.9% of you guys will never build the line tension Mark is referring to. AMEN! Good Lift! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMA

RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-21 Thread Daryl Perkins
<> 99.9% of you guys will never build the line tension Mark is referring to. But...this brings to light a thread from awhile back regarding servos and being smart about your linkage geometry... design your linkage so that you don't work that servo harder than you need to. Long arm on the flap...

RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-21 Thread Donald B. Barker
AM To: soaring@airage.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! Molded Supra launch hinge moments are listed below, for a 200 lb tow load (hard F3j launch). For smaller tow loads, hinge moments will be proportionally smaller. wing camber = +10 deg

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-21 Thread S Meyer
Mark I enjoy reading your posts, very interesting. Makes me think of Spock. :-) What about elevator loads? And elevator servo moment? How would that be calculated? At 10:08 AM 2/18/2006, Mark Drela wrote: Molded Supra launch hinge moments are listed below, for a 200 lb tow load (hard F3j

RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-21 Thread Donald B. Barker
directly from the switch. don -Original Message- From: Mark Drela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:08 AM To: soaring@airage.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! Molded Supra launch hinge moments are li

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-20 Thread Mark Drela
Molded Supra launch hinge moments are listed below, for a 200 lb tow load (hard F3j launch). For smaller tow loads, hinge moments will be proportionally smaller. wing camber = +10 deg rudder defl = 30 deg wing CL = 1.2 lift = 200 lbs q = 0.16 psi = 1104 Pa V = 95 mph = 42.5 m/s Flap hinge mome

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-20 Thread Arne Ansper
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Michael Neverdosky wrote: I think I got off by a power of ten so things are not as bad as my numbers make it but the idea of checking to see what is really needed so I can use enough wire without just throwing more wire at it is sound. Anybody know the full stall current

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Jacobson
Hi Michael, you might like to take a look at: http://www.teaser.fr/~osegouin/aeromode/servos.phtml The program is in french but looking at the screenshot it seems pretty straight forward. The data includes "courant maximal" which should give you the info you need. I'll add the observation

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Neverdosky
I think I got off by a power of ten so things are not as bad as my numbers make it but the idea of checking to see what is really needed so I can use enough wire without just throwing more wire at it is sound. Anybody know the full stall current draw of the popular servos? michael On 2/17/06, Mi

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Neverdosky
My table lists 20ga wire as having a resistance of 10.128 ohms per 1000 feet so that is 0.1 ohm for 10 feet. Ten feet of wire is a servo that is 5 feet (length of the wire) from the battery. Ten amps would make a voltage drop of 1 volt and that would be the max I would want to see even using a 6 v

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread John D Frugé
ng Exchange" Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! I think the best is to use servos that are powerful enough for the loads and use wire big enough to keep voltage drop to an acceptable level with maximum current draw o

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Marta Zavala
ry 17, 2006 9:25 AM Subject: RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! With age comes wisdom... :):) (you didn't explain that this occurred almost 18 years ago...and yes at that time I was a tenured faculty in structural mechanics. If you don't break things, you also

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Neverdosky
I think the best is to use servos that are powerful enough for the loads and use wire big enough to keep voltage drop to an acceptable level with maximum current draw on the servos. What is the maximum current draw of the most popular servos in these planes? michael N6CHV On 2/17/06, Michael Lac

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Lachowski
Assuming that the servo power is just at the margin where blowback will be significant. If it's not, then the extra wire is just extra weight. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't assume windy conditions...we are talking regular early AM no-wind launches where blow-back was significant enough to red

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread lomcovak
Don't assume windy conditions...we are talking regular early AM no-wind launches where blow-back was significant enough to reduce time-in-the-air. It's interesting after a number of monotonous launches utilizing an ALTI to see graphed sink rates start to line up... It could be debated (no one i

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Lachowski
OK, my biggest bang for the buck is 5 cell and digitals. I can give up the dedicated power since it cost me weight in airframe weight as well as weight extending out the wing. Now if we can just get battery mfg to do 20 guage battery packs. Sounds like Don's tradeoff is a good one in overall

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread lomcovak
; > > > >>Go ahead and fly your theoretically correct wiring harness. I'll fly what > >>works. > >> > >>If a NASCAR racer were built using conventional theory, it would be so > >>overweight that it would not be competitive. > >> >

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Lachowski
uilt using conventional theory, it would be so overweight that it would not be competitive. don -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! Most(?) engineering solutions retain the integrity of th

RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread lomcovak
-Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! > > Most(?) engineering solutions retain the integrity of the systems that are > modified to achieve secondary goals. Increasing the series

RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Donald B. Barker
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! ... Well, since YOU are the one who replaced your steel rods with CF of the SAME SIZE(!!) and then stood in amazement (mumbling something about carbon is supposed to be stronger than steel?) when your

RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Donald B. Barker
t: Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz ! Most(?) engineering solutions retain the integrity of the systems that are modified to achieve secondary goals. Increasing the series-resistance by reducing the number of PWR/GND leads to the wing servos was taking a step backwards. This

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread lomcovak
Most(?) engineering solutions retain the integrity of the systems that are modified to achieve secondary goals. Increasing the series-resistance by reducing the number of PWR/GND leads to the wing servos was taking a step backwards. This shows up during launch... In a message dated 2/16/2006 1

Re: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-17 Thread Raschow
In a message dated 2/16/2006 11:38:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some may say I am a weight weenie. I say I am an engineer who knows how to trim out excesses and still keep the product reliable. Well, since YOU are the one who replaced your steel rods with CF of the

RE: [RCSE] Carbon Supra #48 flies - weight < 61 oz !

2006-02-16 Thread Donald B. Barker
For pictures go the Supra build thread and work your way towards the end (page 8 and 9). I forgot to add the link to the thread on RC Groups http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=429879 don RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" req