Spitfire question

[gdclowes]

Have just recieved new spitfire and in the manual it says when attaching the wing to the fuselage plug in the aileron servo lead from the wing into the aileron extension. However there does not appear to be an extension lead only the vacant aileron connection on the reciever. Do they mean plug the servo lead into that connection or should there be an extesion lead fitted there. Help would be greatly appreciated

[cdo6275]

Hi,

When I got my Spitfire there wasn't an extension lead, the cable from the wing went straight into the reciever. There is one on the FW190 which reverses the aileron movements to the correct setting. Any way all I did was plug that cable into the aileron connection on the reciever and it worked. Best to check it though with the transmitter and the movement of the ailerons.

Hope this helps good luck

[gdclowes]

thank you for that imformation, I too have the FW190 and as you say there is an extension lead fitted which made me assume that the same applied to the Spit. I,ll get an extension lead anyway as continuous plugging and unplugging from the receiver can,t be doing the connection on the receiver any good, cheaper to buy an extension lead than a receiver, may have to alter the aileron reverser switch on transmitter though. thanks again for your help.
geoff

[Radweld]

Hi, you dont need an extension lead, just plug the servo directly into the RX unit, the Spit uses industry standard 3 wire servos where the 190 uses non standard 5 wire ones. This is probably why you needed the lead to reverse the throw.

I have 2x Spits and I just plugged the servo into the RX, its no problem.

[nav101]

On the spitfire does it matter which way the battery is put in. The drawing in the manuel isn't very clear. i need to know as i don't want anything to go wrong on her maiden flight.

[Anthony]

I don't think it really matters which way round the battery goes in... I usually position it so that the end of the battery with two cells is at the front.

[ralphp]

Ant's right, theres very minimal weight differance, but if your tail heavey the two cell end facing forward can help.

[nav101]

Thanks for info one less thing to worry about
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