newhelliguy
03-20-2008, 01:45 PM
I have read at least a hundred people asking how to mount a tail servo. I feel there are two better choices.
1. buy a blade 400 tail servo mount. twist it on the tail shaft and mount the servo on the two tail mounts. this cost about 3.00 and you dont have to remove the tail boom.
2. buy trex servo mounts remove tail and mount the servo on the trex servo mount. they are a pretty blue but prob about 15.00 or so.
3. Another choice is to mount it in the original position . I dont like this because if (when) you have to adjust your belt you change the tail arm position.
With any of these you will have to shorten the tail servo rod. I just cut the rod to the lenght where the servo arm is centered and the tail arm is 90 degrees and used jb weld or epoxy and glue the ends into about a 1 inch piece of carbon fiber rod that it fits into. If you mount it on the tail you can make fine adjustments just by moving the servo back and forth.
Also this tail boom method helps cg if you use a larger battery (not really an issue).
I hope this helps answer this very popular question and Im sure all this information is somewhere in these threads I just hope putting it here helps.
FYI I used the futaba S9650 because it was a lot cheaper and my LHS had it and I am very pleased with it. Tail is rock solid. I also have the gy401 as the guy at my field said
"One less thing to worry about."
1. buy a blade 400 tail servo mount. twist it on the tail shaft and mount the servo on the two tail mounts. this cost about 3.00 and you dont have to remove the tail boom.
2. buy trex servo mounts remove tail and mount the servo on the trex servo mount. they are a pretty blue but prob about 15.00 or so.
3. Another choice is to mount it in the original position . I dont like this because if (when) you have to adjust your belt you change the tail arm position.
With any of these you will have to shorten the tail servo rod. I just cut the rod to the lenght where the servo arm is centered and the tail arm is 90 degrees and used jb weld or epoxy and glue the ends into about a 1 inch piece of carbon fiber rod that it fits into. If you mount it on the tail you can make fine adjustments just by moving the servo back and forth.
Also this tail boom method helps cg if you use a larger battery (not really an issue).
I hope this helps answer this very popular question and Im sure all this information is somewhere in these threads I just hope putting it here helps.
FYI I used the futaba S9650 because it was a lot cheaper and my LHS had it and I am very pleased with it. Tail is rock solid. I also have the gy401 as the guy at my field said
"One less thing to worry about."