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Servo Trim - pendulum rudder
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You might want to reduce servo.speed.min or servo.speed.max to make the motor move slower if needed. You can reduce the period also to get shorter impulses, but the stable autopilot only uses 10hz, so you can only really use periods of 0.2 0.3 0.4 etc... The next version I bumped to 20hz. You might want to make the slew speed and slow higher so the motor starts and stops faster. Usually leave servo gain to 1 and adjust the other gains, but you could also reduce this to a value like 0.5 (equal to making all the gains half what they are)


You will never get the same precision of steering using a pendulum like this, because of lag and play in linkages, but it will use significantly less power of course.
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Servo Trim - pendulum rudder - by Indee - 2020-08-06, 10:26 AM
RE: Servo Trim - pendulum rudder - by seandepagnier - 2020-08-08, 02:02 PM
RE: Servo Trim - pendulum rudder - by Indee - 2020-08-30, 02:25 PM

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