RV-10 Avionics - Time-lapse 4: Final sizing and adding connectors
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Last wiring timelapse off the airplane! Follow along as we finish up adding all the connectors, final sizing, routing wires in the panel, and then finally prep to go to the airframe!
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Wow! You took all of that cable and turned it into a work of technological art. Well done to you and your beautiful wife. God bless you both. 🙂
Hello from Minnesota! Looks great!!
my neck hurts just watching this
As an RV-10 builder-pilot/EAA tech counselor whose aircraft is now 16 years old with 1350 hrs TTSN and in the midst of avionics upgrades, as I do those upgrades I am regretting having done tight wiring bundles with point to point minimal length wiring between avionics boxes. And now there is no option other than laying on my back to reach up to undo all of those adel clamps and fish a wire or two out of a large bundle to re-route it. I can barely and only painfully reach the connectors at the top of the center stack avionics. I really wonder about the maintainability of full panel builds hired out to avionics shops by builders, many of whom really don't know how "the hip bone is connected to the thigh bone" in their panels.
If I could rewind to the original build, instead of tight wiring I would have optimized accessibility, modularity and maintainability. Once a project, always a project over the lifetime of the plane! So building with the mindset that any component you put in the panel is likely to be upgraded and replaced by something that is wired differently pays dividends in the long run. It has been a great benefit to insert male-female pairs of DB connectors in the middle of wire runs, so that a new unit can be wired to the DB connector interface and not directly to the target boxes. This is especially true for units that have multiple interfaces to other boxes, such as installing a GTN 650xi that replaced a GNS 480 as GPS/NAV/COMM, and EFIS display units now with synthetic viz, traffic and weather that the originals never had. Live and learn.
I hear ya, for sure. I've included service loops for each component, and made sure everything is well labeled and documented. I'm not a fan of adding extra connectors where they aren't needed as that adds 3 extra points of failure to each wire.
Very helpful videos. Knowing what you know now was the pegboard option of building the harness better than trying to assemble the harness in place?
Maybe I missed it and the prayer video what kind of labelmaker are you using?
I enjoyed having all the access on the pegboard so I’d do it again. For a one off wiring it might be faster to just do in the panel. The label maker is a cheap Brother brand one. They claim the shrink labels don’t work in them but I disagree :)
Please sir do you have a discord channel
I do not. You can catch me on all the "old guy" social media: facebook and youtube :)