As you can see, our plucky Playmonaut is back in his seat in the Vulture 2 spaceplane following some work on the aircraft's canards and servo linkages.
We had to swap out a servo after a recent minor melt-down, and took the chance to mount the canards properly. The fire department is on standby, just in case another servo motor goes up in smoke.
Here are the mounted forewings with the Pixhawk fired up...
...and for the viewing pleasure of those of an engineering bent, here's how we bolted them to the aircraft:
We describe the canards as "cantankerous" because they proved somewhat troublesome. The full story is right here.
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Thanks for the update!
I've had two servos let out the magic smoke recently (thankfully on my cars and not my planes) and with both it seemed to result from the motor's brushes going bad, which shorted out the servo controller's H-bridge.
Both of these servos had unusually high current draw for some time before they failed. My guess would be that this was an indicator of the upcoming failure.
Since then, I've been putting my servos on the tester with an ammeter to sweep for an hour or so before they go into a project. I've managed to find one bad apple this way so far.
Thanks Christiaan. We're firm believers in having a bit of fun on our projects.
I love following your progress and the characters involved :)
Love it, fine Friday fodder