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0. 10:10 AM - Just A Few Days Left... (Matt Dralle)
1. 04:55 AM - Re: Re: Auto Pilot (Patrick Ladd)
2. 06:49 AM - Re: Re: Auto Pilot (Charlie England)
3. 08:00 AM - Re: Kolb-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 11/22/15 (Rex Rodebush)
4. 08:43 AM - Re: Re: Kolb-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 11/22/15 (Larry Cottrell)
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| Subject: | Just A Few Days Left... |
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<pots (sorry; potentiometers>
Hi Charlie, that took me back about 70 years.When I was an ack ack gunner we
did an exercise every day called `Aligning pots and selsyns`. This was to
check that the signal from the predictor/radar/tracker did not align the
guns 180 degrees out of sync. (It happened sometimes anyway) I don`t think
that I have heard a reference to `pots` in that sense since those days.
Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie England
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Auto Pilot
The thread seems to have forked to using a servo as a simple trim tab
controller. On that subject...
The servos have feedback pots (sorry; potentiometers) that can drive an
LED ladder display. They have to have them for feedback to the
controller. For a controller,
http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__18309__Hobbyking_LED_Servo_Tester.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt46maA-MRc
This one has a display, but realistically, the knob should be display
enough.
Charlie
Two quotes:
Simplicate and add lightness
Better is the enemy of good enough
On 11/23/2015 7:07 PM, t41pilot wrote:
>
> Needed the microprocessor to have enough outputs to drive my cool led
> bargraph to show the trim position :)
>
> --------
> Gregg Kaat
> 2011 Firefly
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=450074#450074
>
>
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I hope the trip down memory lane doesn't get you shot. :-O
A couple of my lives before retirement (several, now that I think about
it...) were in electronics related fields, and 'pot' was and still is
tech slang for potentiometer. In at least one of the other lives, it was
slang for something else, too, but that's for another day.
What you're describing was likely just a bigger, heavier precursor to
the little r/c servos currently discussed.
Charlie
On 11/24/2015 6:54 AM, Patrick Ladd wrote:
>
>
> <pots (sorry; potentiometers>
>
> Hi Charlie, that took me back about 70 years.When I was an ack ack
> gunner we did an exercise every day called `Aligning pots and
> selsyns`. This was to check that the signal from the
> predictor/radar/tracker did not align the guns 180 degrees out of
> sync. (It happened sometimes anyway) I don`t think that I have heard a
> reference to `pots` in that sense since those days.
> Pat
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Charlie England
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 4:07 AM
> To: kolb-list@matronics.com
> Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Auto Pilot
>
>
> The thread seems to have forked to using a servo as a simple trim tab
> controller. On that subject...
>
> The servos have feedback pots (sorry; potentiometers) that can drive an
> LED ladder display. They have to have them for feedback to the
> controller. For a controller,
> http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__18309__Hobbyking_LED_Servo_Tester.html
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt46maA-MRc
> This one has a display, but realistically, the knob should be display
> enough.
>
> Charlie
> Two quotes:
> Simplicate and add lightness
> Better is the enemy of good enough
>
>
> On 11/23/2015 7:07 PM, t41pilot wrote:
>>
>> Needed the microprocessor to have enough outputs to drive my cool led
>> bargraph to show the trim position :)
>>
>> --------
>> Gregg Kaat
>> 2011 Firefly
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| Subject: | Re: Kolb-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 11/22/15 |
Seems like a lot of people these days spend their time trying to find something
to offend them. If this post offends you; believe me, there are worse things
in life to be offended by.
Just to keep it Kolb related. I'm making a mount below the nose for the action
cam. The next video should be a little more exciting.
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=450099#450099
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| Subject: | Re: Kolb-List Digest: 4 Msgs - 11/22/15 |
Atta Boy on both counts. I looked for the offending words and couldn't find
them, must have been on an attachment or some other obscure place.
As for the mount under the nose, make it as solid as you can. You will
probably find that there are certain RPM's that do not shake or jello. I
suggest that on you initial flight, test that by flying at an rpm for a
while, then go through the rest keeping track of which is which. You will
probably find that the faster speeds will be the best. Let me know what you
find.
Hang in there,
Larry
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Rex Rodebush <jrrodebush@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Seems like a lot of people these days spend their time trying to find
> something to offend them. If this post offends you; believe me, there are
> worse things in life to be offended by.
>
> Just to keep it Kolb related. I'm making a mount below the nose for the
> action cam. The next video should be a little more exciting.
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=450099#450099
>
>
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