{"id":680,"date":"2011-11-29T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-10T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T21:23:50","slug":"finished-flap-position-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/11\/29\/finished-flap-position-sensor\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished Flap Position Sensor Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrapped up the flap position sensor installation tonight. \u00a0I installed the 4-40 threaded rod between the bracket I fabricated and the position sensor and adjusted the length so that it moves the position sensor arm through the full range of travel. \u00a0I then installed a couple of locking jam nuts to keep the rod from moving.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20111129\/IMG_0057.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0057.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Next, I configured the flaps with a couple of intermediate stop points. \u00a0I&#8217;ll duplicate these settings in the VP-X so that it will automatically stop at these points when I tap the flaps switch. \u00a0I probably won&#8217;t enable that feature during initial flight testing though. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the indication when the flaps are all the way up.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20111129\/IMG_0058.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0058.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and here&#8217;s the indication when the flaps are all the way down.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20111129\/IMG_0059.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0059.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrapped up the flap position sensor installation tonight. \u00a0I installed the 4-40 threaded rod between the bracket I fabricated and the position sensor and adjusted the length so that it moves the position sensor arm through the full range of travel. \u00a0I then installed a couple of locking jam nuts to keep the rod &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/11\/29\/finished-flap-position-sensor\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}