Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A bad day in the workshop

I was working on the installation of the Autopilot Pitch Servo, a difficult to reach area with lots of challenges to pass your hands as well as the parts. I was practically finished, just tying the Molex plugs and Noice filter to the housing of the servo when I heard a click... The connection of the wires to the noice filter had broken under stress.
This is the noise filter resting on the instruction's drawing after a post mortem:


The issue is that the tie wrap pinpointed on the drawing is insufficient to secure firmly both filter and Molex plugs.
More details on the damaged filter:

No comments:

Post a Comment