RV-9A Electrical System

Saturday, July 02, 2005

Wires, wires and wires!

Spent all day in the shop, up to my elbows in wires. I have a substantial portion of the wiring run in the fuselage (excepting avionics/instruments). It's amazing how many wires run everywhere! You figure two for each device: 2 nav lights, 2 landing lights, 3 position lights, 3 strobe lights, pitot/aoa tubings, VOR antenna, PTT wires. Yowser!

I really debated whether or not to put terminals at the wing roots to aid in the wiring process and in the end I decided to do it. It will just make things a bunch easier later on to hook the wires up instead of leaving big spools of wire on the outside of the fuse.

Altitude encoder mounted - Mounted on pilot side.

Wiring down the center and up.

Pitot/AOA/Strobe/Marker Beacon

Pilot seat terminal block (PTT Switch/Ground for Nav light)

Pilot wing root terminal (Pitot/Landing Light)

Mic jac soldering (I'm learning to solder and think I'm doing OK so far.)

(Time: 10 Hours)

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