 Re: To have counter balances or not!!!
Gents,
Doesn't the full scale E300 have counter-balanced elevators?
If so, I'm not sure why the AT model doesn't have them?
The E260 (and 230) didn't have counter-balanced elevators, but the successors did I believe.
FWIW, if you chose to use counter-balanced elevators, you can further reduce the elevator servo workload by 'balancing' the elevators. Simply add some weight to the lead edge of the counter-balance part of the elevator: a small hole drilled from the fuselage side of the counter balance does the trick. The weights I have heard vary from 1 to 1.75 ozs. I have 1.5 ozs in my MX2. They don't need to balance perfectly (elevator at neutral), but the weight should allow the elevator to move much easier by hand, and not drop to the absolute down (or up) position. |