aileron help!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jetpackninja]

True

 

[ananas1301]

Y-cables are still always good to have.

Imagine you have a few more chanels you need for lights and sound effects or whatever and there you would use a Y-cable to have that spare chanel you need.
I would always need to have a working Y-cable as you save quite a bit of work, which might not even be right and be on the safe side with the connections

 

[wadsie]

yer im buying a y cabel and new servos and rx

 

[KKArioKA]

How to make y cables ???

Anyone have a Schematic or blueprint on how to make Y cables ?? i have my glider here that wont fly because HK has Y cables in backorder !!!

i have plenty of spares PC Motherboard here so i can salvage some conectors .....

 

[colorex]

Anyone have a Schematic or blueprint on how to make Y cables ?? i have my glider here that wont fly because HK has Y cables in backorder !!!

i have plenty of spares PC Motherboard here so i can salvage some conectors .....

If you have a programmable Tx, you can use another channel for the aileron. If not, you could reverse the servo like this:

pointing the servo arm in the other direction will change travel direction.

I think (DON'T trust me) servos can be paralelled, (red to red, black to black, white to white) I'd like someones confirmation. (DON'T trust me)

 

[Klonas]

Just solder servo wires. Black to black, red to red, white to white.
This is a Y cable I took apart:

 

[colorex]

Ok, KKArioKA.

Join the servos like in the picture. Then, if one travels the wrong way, you can't simply reverse channels. You'll have to rotate the control horn on one servo by 180º and move the horn to a good position. Otherwise you can use the method described by Scott.

http://flitetest.com/forum/showthread.php?640-How-to-reverse-a-9g-servo

 

[Klonas]

If the servo arms are facing from each other that shouldn't happen...
That's my experience anyways.
If you were to do let's say elevator from 2 parts(each controlled by a servo) then you would have to reverse one.

 

[KKArioKA]

thx guys, just as i imagined when chad said all parallel, i suspected but now you confirmed ... now to the workbench

yall are great helpers !!

 

[colorex]

You're welcome. Let us know how it goes.

 

[KKArioKA]

it goes like this

 

[colorex]

Good. You have the plugs?

 

[KKArioKA]

Good. You have the plugs?

no ... thinking in a way to do it ... my computer plugs are either male 2 pin conectors or 3 pin CPU Fan like .. so i cant use them for this ...

need 2 female + 1 male servo conectors.

i have some 20 years old full sized (47g) futaba/airtronics servos, im thinking of snipping the male conector from 1 of them(for the receiver) and just hot glue the other bare wires to the servo pins.

 

[colorex]

It's better if you solder them. That holds better.

 

[themajik1]

It's better if you solder them. That holds better.

I agree, hot glue will not conduct electricity. You should solder them for sure. Don't want to loose connection when you are flying, bad things tend to happen!:black_eyed:

 

[KKArioKA]

i guess you guys are right ... if i want to remove it, just de-solder them .....

( i suck at soldering; or either my soldering iron + solder - solder gel (dont have it) sux )

 

[KKArioKA]

Homemade Y cable V2;

three 20-year-old full sized servos sacrificed their life for the cause .... (borrowed cables and conectors)

I soldered the tips in parallel then soldered to the conector, then I did a shrink tube finishing.