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WingsOnWheels 05-01-2020 03:54 PM

I did my 6A roll servo in the wingtip. Easy to install, super easy to access, no roll/pitch coupling either.

vlittle 05-02-2020 06:51 AM

Here's what I did in my Rocket:




Scott Hersha 05-02-2020 07:25 AM

Thanks Vern. I was thinking about trying something like this, but wasn?t sure what it would look like. Now I know. This would be the easiest place to mount the Servo in my airplane. I?ll have to see if I can get that torque tube out of my finished airplane to modify it. Not sure if the opening in the spar web is large enough to remove it.

Scott Hersha 05-02-2020 07:32 AM

Actually, after studying your pictures some more it looks like this is mounted at the aft end of the torque tube, at the co-pilots stick location. I was thinking about the same thing mounted at the forward end of that torque tube. Having access to that area would require me to drill out that area of the floor and make it removeable, which I may have to do anyway.

Thanks.

FinnFlyer 05-02-2020 08:26 AM

Keep it simple
 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Oi...M4UyPWZh0G9TMB

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ol...Wf-zh26NJUVfyP

Shamelessly stolen from the guy who sold me my Dynon servos.

Finn

vfrazier 05-03-2020 08:12 PM

I stuffed a servo into the fwd stick bay in my Rocket. No reason it wouldn't work in an RV-4. The one in the photo is a Navaid, but I swapped to a GRT servo later on.



More info here:
http://vincesrocket.com/Instruments%...electrical.htm

Scott Hersha 05-04-2020 05:20 AM

Finn and Vince - that’s what I was hoping to get a picture of. It’s a little crowded there, but very accessible and easy to wire. These pictures are worth a thousands words. The bracket drawing helps a lot too. And I like the bent stick too, since I moved my front seat back almost 3”.

Thanks


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