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Old 08-06-2009, 03:37 PM
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I have had several Ray Allen components fail in the last year and I was wondering what else is on the market for trim indicators, relays, servos?

I've gone though 2 REL-3 elevator trim indicators, 1 REL-1 trim relay, and the trim servo is sounding anemic.

Anyone else replacing Ray Allen components? Any replacement vendors out there?
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Old 08-06-2009, 08:31 PM
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I finally got rid of our last REL-1 relays in Mikey - those are the only components from Ray Allen I have had bad luck with (two sets in the Val, one set in Mikey). They will act all shocked that you've had a relay failure, when in fact, they replaced the REL-1's with REL-2's because there are LOTS of reported failures.....
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Old 08-06-2009, 08:54 PM
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Look at www.tcwtech.com. Their Safety Trim works great, and if you use the airspeed switch, you can have two different trim speeds, a faster trim speed at lower airspeeds, and a slower trim speed at higher airspeeds. Works great.
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