Title: roll servo rigged
The Garmin g3x manual calls has instructions that are important for this operation. The heim jones on the pushrod must have .375 minimum thread engagement The servo arm should be 90 degrees to the pushrod when the ailerons are centered For best performance the angular travel of the arm should be maximized to the extent possible while still ensuring the ailerons hit their mechanical stops before the servo arm hits the over center stops integral to the face of the servo. Taking these considerations in order; The pushrod doesn't have witness holes to indicate minimum thread engagement, so I measured them. The threaded portion is .75, so what this is saying is that they need to be 1/2 way screwed in at a minimum after their final adjustment. I set them up to utilize the center hole of the lever arm as a starting point and with everything rigged I have exactly 1/2" thread engagement, or effectively twice the required minimum. With the jam nuts taking up another 1/8", theres no way that this can unscrew itself enough to become disengaged so this meets the standard aircraft convention for pushrods. When run through the entire range of motion, the system is hitting the aileron hard stops before the servo lever touches the over center bracket with about 1/4" to spare. I believe I've got margin on both the over center bracket and pushrod thread engagement to move this to the outer servo lever hole for maximum travel per the Garmin instruction if the roll reaction is to twitchy, but this is set up sort of middle of the road right now and I'm going to try it out this way first.


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