April 29th,2014, 3 hours

I routed the Pitot tube and two AOA tubes from the pilot side wall to underneath the dash and to their respective locations. Connected the AOA tubes to the AOA BOX and the Pitot Tube to the GSU25’s.

The overhead panel contains switches for controlling the WingTip Taxi and WingTip Landing lights, the Nav lights, the marker lights and the strobe lights. These overhead switches have LED lights in them. When you push in the Marker Light switch the LED and Marker LIght switch LED should light up. They did not. I found I had routed the power wire back to the fuse panel instead of the VPX J10-4. Corrected the wire placement and LED’s work now when the Marker Light (Nav Lights) are switched on.

Dec 31, 2013. Hours 30. (Worked this over multiple days)

Over the past Holiday I have been non-stop working on wiring the systems under the dash and throughout the fuselage. I will say that I am not as young and flexible as I used to be and my body lets me know every time I decide to make it do something I think it still can do. Regardless the wiring is moving along despite the long hours of work.

The VPX Pro is 95% wired with the exception of ALT1 and ALT2 connected at the box. All toggle switches are wired except for the IGN Batt 1 and IGN Batt 2 source switch. The three fuses associated with the IGN system are not terminated yet but I do have wires routed for the 5 AMP ECU breakers. I installed a 20 AMP c/b for the external power ports I will be installing throughout the fuselage. The mounting hole for this c/b was not originally planned for in the right side panel.

The two control sticks have been wired in but I still need to locate 9 pin back shells for the d-sub connectors. I shortened the vertical portion of the control stick so the base of the Infinity grip was at the lowest point on the control stick. I did not shorten the horizontal portion of the control stick where is inserts into the control receiver. I will wait to modify this once I receive the seats. With my height only being 5’4″ i am afraid I will encounter issues with having the stick to far back when I have the seat ll the way forward. I plan on creating on more notch to further move the seat forward to help me reach the peddles. If I run into issues I might need to shorten the rudder control cables so I can pull the rudder peddles further aft.

I worked with the GTS-800 coax cables for the upper and lower antennas. I cut off the EXTREMELY expensive QMA connectors that Garmin supplies. I had to cut 4 of them off since I could not properly route them throughout the fuselage to the overhead with the 90 degree connectors. This cost me and extra $145 dollars. Had I understood the price of these I would HAVE NEVER ALLOWED Stein’s guys to terminate the cables for me and “test” the GTS-800. Overall the routing went well and the cables are installed top and bottom.

Everyday I go out to the fuselage and work on the wiring. It seems that nothing ever changes. I know work is getting done, but this has been rather challenging to keep an upbeat attitude. I hope to work the wing root connectors and the two push pull cables for the heater controls. I also hope to install the switch for disconnecting the ground to the copilot stick so that a nonflying passenger will not affect the electrical controls on the stick.

I also worked with the ELT and extended the 4 wire “telephone” cable to reach the dash. I also mounted the ELT orange noise box with velcro to the right side under the dash. This box contains a battery and so does the dash mounted control.. These two items will need to have a battery installed and have the dates tracked for battery replacement.