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Tricopter rudder/yaw servo trim, wrong servo trim number? #604

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. using a APM2.6 on a tricopter, I recently changed servo and its default 
position was not directly centered, I wanted a way to adjust the center trim on 
the APM 2.6.
At first I thought this was not possible,but after searching I found some 
RC7_trim , min , max values. However they did not seem to have any affect. I 
saw references on DIYdrones to rc4_trim...  I didn't think to adjust this as my 
servo is plugged into rc7.
I had to reverse RC7 for my servo to work correctly so I was sure that Rc7_trim 
was what I needed....
But after some frustrations, I tried altering RC4_trim and that did work for 
adjusting my yaw servo trim.
Presumably this is a mistake?
Surely if RC7 reverses my servo, RC7_trim should adjust the same servo?
Sorry if I am mistaken here.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected RC7_trim to adjust my yaw servo trim, instead it did nothing. But 
rc4_trim did alter my yaw servo trim, even though the servo is plugged into 
RC7, I am nervous about altering rc4_trim as my tail ESC is plugged into slot 4 
and I don't want to affect the trim on that..

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
APM 2.6 , MissionPlanner 1 latest version, winVista & win7

Please provide any additional information below.
I read elsewhere not to worry about yaw trim as the APM will take care of it, 
but my previous servo did tend to allow some rotation on initial take-off and 
that was mostly straight up. I am sure the tricopter would rotate significantly 
more as it is now without trim adjustments.

When searching for solutions to this problem I found other people complaining 
of difficulties adjusting trim for servos, not just rudder/yaw servos, so maybe 
the code needs checking on all of these.

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sky_star...@yahoo.co.uk on 28 May 2015 at 12:24