Title: mag switch wiring + Aux harness connectors
tidied up the shop a little this morning, then pulled and ops checked power and ground wires from the panel switches thru the firewall. Interestingly, during the ops check I discovered that power to internally excite the mags is hot as soon as the master comes on and is only interrupted when the toggles are moved to the test position. This makes perfect sense when I think about it and isn't really any different that a normal magneto as far as the mag being "hot" but In my mind, it just seemed logical that there shouldn't be any power going out there until the switch is moved to the on position, which of course, also grounds out the P leads. I'm going to check the schematics to make sure that this is correct, but I'm 90% sure it should be this way when I think about it logically. Also debated and schemed for a while about how and where to best secure the aux connectors that all of the lights and panel switches pin into. Ultimately decided the simplest solution is probably the best and just secured them to a rib flange with appropriate sized adel clamps into a nut plate. Unless I missed something, I think I'm done with the final wiring cleanup/securing on the port side panel over to basically where the engine control cables will run. This also brings up an issue I've known about for a while; There is an angle hanging down from the sub panel where you are supposed to install adel clamps to support the engine control cables. I thought I was being smart by installing this with nut plates instead of riveting it so once those cables are positioned it would be cake to pull that panel back out and install nut plates for those adel clamps. Unfortunately, where I ended up installing the transponder, It's going to be tough to get to the heads of those screws to remove that thing. My choices are to wait until the cables are installed and then try to install adel clamps without drilling through any wiring (tight, especially trying to either get a nutplate in there or a wrench on the back side) or pull it out now and see if i can guesstimate where they go. I will have to think about this some more, because it i decide to pull it out of there at this point it will be a lot easier before I get all the rest of the wiring high and tight


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