R/C Naval Combat

I have hooked up the servo and rudder. Everything works fine, although the rudders arent making as sharp of turn as I remembered they would (this is my second ship). Is that just me or do I need to adjust the servos some how? I have one of those aircraft sliding rods that connect the servo to the rudder. My current theory is that that rod is bending too much taking away some of the power from the servo to the rudder.

Posted By jadfer on 21 Jan 2010 09:13 AM
I have a Traxxas servo on the Baden and it performs the same as any other servo. The ship didnt turn as well as I wanted because at full throw the rudders were flat across the back and each other. I turned down the end point almost 30 percent and the ship turned at its best.

In the end the rudders only needed to turn around 60% to get me turning in a circle. I was suprised by this.

What end point do you mean?

Two ideas,

one, change the fulcrum point on the servo arm, bigger (further away from the center of the servo) will give you more of a turning arc. You may have to make a custom one to give enough of what you want.

Two, if the rod is bending, support it somewhere in the middle or place it in a bigger tube for support. ie.. tube inside a tube

In the radio you can adjust the end point. The end point is the point that the servo stops when you push the stick to one side. If adjust the end point you can tell the servo precisely (I think) where you want it to stop when you throw the stick over.

rcnavalcombat.com/Forum/tabid/58/af...fault.aspx

Have you checked out the information available at the links in the above post?

Another thing:  on my hobby king TX, the connector on the back is intermittent sometimes, as the tolerances in the molded part are obviously not sufficient to keep all the pins connected at the same time (I.E. the pins are loose on their receptacles....  ) I had to jiggle the connector till I found an angle that gets good contact.