Trim Tab Buttons

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Originally posted by Gregory S

It's counter-intuitive until you think about exactly what the tabs are doing. The port tab lifts the port stern which pushes the stbd bow dowh and vice versa. The operator isn't thinking about which way to lift the stern, only which way to move the bow. Thus the tabs are wired opposite.

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Now you have me confused again. When I push on the tab button which is on the left side of the two tabs and labled port it pushes the PORT bow down.

If I want to lower the starboard bow I have to push on the starboard tab.

G
 
That's correct. The tabs don't push the bow down, they lift the stern which causes the bow to go down. Lift port stern, and the stbd bow goes down. The tabs are wired opposite so you think you are pushing the stbd bow down but you are lifting the port stern.
 
Don't over-think it, George - the tabs are labelled VERY intuitively (Formula not withstanding!) - if you're listing to STBD, then press STBD BOW UP, if not corrected, the press PORT BOW DOWN. I don't know of many controls on my boat which are MORE intuitive!

Mechanically speaking, it's important to know 'which tab does what'; practically speaking, it's important to know that the controls respond as labelled. ; )
 
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Originally posted by Gregory S

That's correct. The tabs don't push the bow down, they lift the stern which causes the bow to go down.
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Spitting hairs. If you push a button and the bow goes down; then that's all that is needed to know. I don't care how electricty flows; all I want is for the light to turn on when I flip the switch.
 
It's splitting hairs if you don't want to know how/why things work the way they do. I guess that's why I do surgey and not primary care.
 
I don't know about you guys, but when I fly an airplane and turn the yoke to the left, I want it to bank left, I don't care that because the left side of the yoke went down, that the left aileron went up and the right one went down. Controls should be intuitive, not logical which is why the Iphone sells so well.
 
so when you pre-flight the plane and turn the yoke to the left, if the left aileron went down, you wouldn't know you had a prob;em?????
 
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