Day 26 - Internal rigging

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The instructions for these steps are very clear, here are some photos to illustrate them:

Attach the rudder control arm with the control rod attached and running up to the RC deck:


Feed the included spectra line through the hole in the center forward hole of the deck. The mid-point of the line is fed through a crimping collet, then through the sail control arm and then back through the collet (no easy feat) to be crimped. The trick I used was to tie the doubled over mid point on the spectra to a single thread which I passed through the collet and then pulled the doubled over portion through and then crimped it:


You don't want to let the spectra slip back into the hole while working with it:


Control arm with spectra attached waiting for the next step:


Close up of the control arm and crimped spectra:


RC connector module:


Here the servos, batteries are connected to the servo control unit. The black closed loop was unused in my case. The instructions were silent on its purpose: 


The servos are connected to channels 1 and 3 which are the left and right joysticks both in their lateral left and right movement directions. The battery is connected to the BAT terminal. Now is a good time to decide which servo (sail or rudder) you want left or right - test your connections using the remote control before mounting:


Servos installed using only the supplied two-way tape (for now):


Battery module sits between two screw eyes but is otherwise loose. The on-off switch mounts to the top of the connector module:


Everything is installed and connected. Note the screws added to keep the servos in place:


Cutting out the mylar door for the RC deck opening:


The base of the mylar door is applied to the deck with two-way tape:


Here the door is being slid into place between the deck and the top mylar border:


Comments

  1. AnonymousMay 8, 2017 at 2:07 AM

    I believe the black loop wire is used if you must re-pair the remote control and the receiver. - Stosh

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