Thursday, September 25, 2014

Wiring up the wings

With the wings finally on, we can now finish up all the wiring: the nav/strobe lights, pitot heat, autopilot on the wing, fuel senders, pitot and AOA plumbing. Took almost a day to wrap this up (8hrs).

Also had to finish the wingtips, wire them and test everything for operation:


 
The images below show how the wiring to the tax/landing lights were secured. Here is a place where experience really counts. For example, you don't want the power connection going to the lights ever touching the airframe. Consequently its imperative that you insulate it well. Harley (Glenn's brother) advised on how to insulate using wrap around the connection. Lots of small details took quite a bit of time (6 hrs).  
 

 
Here is the final product!
 

We test fired the strobes and landing/taxi lights. Everything works except for the wig-wag functionality. Realized that we need to get a new flasher module. Its on its way from B&C and once that's in, we got everything wired up in the panel!

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