Assembling the ARIS

P. Rondel


05/03/2005

Following the first serie of pictures of the kit and how it comes, here are some pictures of the assembling. The moulding quality is awesome and make the assembling easier. the pictures are in the chronological order of the assembling. the assembling is finished, and I'm waiting now better weather condition (to much snow at the moment) to do the first flight.

 

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Very simple but perfect !

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The keel is in Carbon, very well design, and offer lots of surface and place for the different radio elements

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13 mm servos can be used, but I prefered the new s3150 from futaba which is only 10.8 mm large

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The servos is a s3150 from Futaba, an excellent and powerfull 10.8 mm servos according to the test conducted by JL Delort, Olivier Segouin and Patrick Césarato.

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Wing connectors are supplied in the kit. I always use hot glue to mould the connector. This is rock solid and easy to remove

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connectors are epoxied in the fuselage

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Nothing to do on the tailplane.

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No tube to maintain the tail in place

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I made a small mount in aluminum for the switch ...

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which take place horizontally above the ballast tube. Easy to access.

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Servo mounts come from www.servoframes.com. I use g3210 servos for the ailerons

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and DS368 for the flaps, with the corresponding servos frame

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very weel though and good quality too.

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servos wires and connectors are prepared outside the wing

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The connector is then epoxied in place.

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then come the important step that consists in putting the servos in place one by one and in making the surface control linkage.

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The system supplied in the kit is great, easy to setup.

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Once the servos in place

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It confirms that the servos horn is a little bit too long to use the original servo cover (flat)

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I used a servos cover coming from an Ellipse 4 mould copy. Very convenient. this is the only negative point I found with the Aris. They should provide such servo cover

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Radio installation is easy, plenty of place.

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I used a V-limiter to stabilise the voltage coming from the 5 cells battery

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the receiver is an excellent Schulze

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I also use a battery voltage indicator. The battery is a 5 x 2300 mAh Sanyo NiMh

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Very few lead (about 90gr) are needed to obtain the correct CG.

   

Servomances is an excellent software and database developped by 3 french modellers. they first setted up a test protocol that they followed in details for every servos tested. This software (in french) is downloadable on Olivier Segouin's website. Hereafter are the 3 test results for the servos I used on the Aris. the Hitec is probably different from the Graupner G3210, even if they use the same gears and servo case.

 

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