Back when I was (slightly less) naive, I decided it would be a good idea to buy an LX twin 70mm F-22 RTF as my first plane. Well, you can imagine how that went. Luckily, though, the fans, motors, and ESCs were unharmed. I went and bought a trainer and progressed from there. Fast forward a couple of years, I still have the guts from the first F-22 (recently verified they still work), so I recently bought the LX F-22 airframe to try my first build (until now everything has been strictly PNP). The manual that comes with the LX F-22 is useless in terms of wiring - it basically tells me that I need Y harnesses (duh) without providing anymore details.
When I took apart the first LX F-22, I seem to remember that the servos for the left elevator and left thrust vectoring were together on one Y harness, and the right elevator and right thrust vector were on another Y harness, but that seems...not right.
Is there anyone here who can help me with the wiring for this bird? I've watched all the videos I can find, but none go in depth on the wiring, they instead focus on other aspects of the build. If anyone could provide just the roughest of rough sketches of how the wiring setup needs to go, I would be forever grateful.
One other request for advice: Can anyone recommend a good method to drill a level/horizontal hole to install a wing spar? It isn't the drilling part that I'm unsure of, it's finding a way to do it so that the hole remains level/parallel to the ground so the spar isn't crooked. Obviously there is not much room for error when drilling for a wing spar (will be one wing spar that goes through the body of the fuselage and approximately 2/3 of the way into each wing.
I have adequate experience in flying jets, but zero experience in wiring them or installing wing spars on birds that don't have pre-drilled holes (I still have trouble believing that LX thought it would be a good idea to design such a large plane without wing spars).
When I took apart the first LX F-22, I seem to remember that the servos for the left elevator and left thrust vectoring were together on one Y harness, and the right elevator and right thrust vector were on another Y harness, but that seems...not right.
Is there anyone here who can help me with the wiring for this bird? I've watched all the videos I can find, but none go in depth on the wiring, they instead focus on other aspects of the build. If anyone could provide just the roughest of rough sketches of how the wiring setup needs to go, I would be forever grateful.
One other request for advice: Can anyone recommend a good method to drill a level/horizontal hole to install a wing spar? It isn't the drilling part that I'm unsure of, it's finding a way to do it so that the hole remains level/parallel to the ground so the spar isn't crooked. Obviously there is not much room for error when drilling for a wing spar (will be one wing spar that goes through the body of the fuselage and approximately 2/3 of the way into each wing.
I have adequate experience in flying jets, but zero experience in wiring them or installing wing spars on birds that don't have pre-drilled holes (I still have trouble believing that LX thought it would be a good idea to design such a large plane without wing spars).
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