Today was ELT day. I had prewired much of the ELT, so this wasn’t an incredibly taxing adventure. Still, between the physical mounting, final wiring, and alteration of panel, this took a couple days. Testing the ELT proved successful after I remembered to configure the system properly in the G3X–an incredibly easy task. It’s incredibly […]
I went with FlyLED lighting–The Works. This system requires you build just about everything from scratch, which excited me. The soldering, the fabrication–still, somehow after two-plus years of building I still have appetite for more. I will say, the entire process took longer than I would have thought. There was a lot to this kit, […]
It has been a while since I’ve provided an update. Work continues to fill out the panel, and run all the necessary wiring throughout the airplane. I want to get all the wire run and components installed that I can before working on the plane becomes much tighter. (With skins on, and other components installed.) […]
Twas a big day. No smoke–heck not even any hiccups. The system powered up and expected components were talking. Configurate brought other elements online, while some (pitot/static, OAT, engine related sensors) will have to wait. Truly an exciting day. One of the biggest, I’d say, since I started this project. Listening to overhead traffic on […]
Antennas are wired. This is a big step towards powerup. The antennas are required, from what I’ve heard, as adding power–and more specifically transmitting–without an antenna can damage certain sensitive electronics. Doublers were created for each antenna out of .032″. This is lighter that I likely should have used, but they seem stout. Too think […]