knocked out a few random things this week. One was a big win. A while back, I was working on the panel LEDs that I'm putting under the glare shield. I have the 3 dimmer setup and 3 LED strips that Stein sells and am running them through the GAD27. When I hooked up the 1st channel to the baggage compartment, that this was bright! Then I temporarily wired up the other two and suddenly they dropped to about 1/2 the output I was expecting. I got into the book and discovered that the GAD was capable of controlling 500 milliamps per channel, and the data on Steins website said that each strip pulled about 0.8 amps. I reasoned that I had found the source of my issue, put a meter on the strips while they were connected to my lawn mower battery, and lopped off a bit (about 8") until they were pulling less than 0.5 amps each. Hooked them back up to the dimmers and their was no improvement. I called Garmin to see if it was possible that I had fried teh lighting circuit in the GAD27 and while they didn't think so, they agreed to swap out my unit for for a different one. Still no change, what the heck? I put this on the back burner for a while and just got back to it this week where I discovered almost by accident that the fuse to the lighting circuit had popped. I can't explain why they were still lighting ups at all, but evidently there was enough current coming through the GAD27 to cause them to come on, albeit at a much reduced brightness level..replaced that fuse and now it's all good, yay! I also I filed a u shape channel in the panel where the wiring for the light strips will go from under the glare shield back behind the panel. I also relocated the r/h brake line from the firewall to the gear leg so that it runs aft of the engine mount tubes. This tucks it up out of the way a bit better for a neater installation as well as gets it a bit further away from the exhaust pipes. I was rooting around in my scrap pile for something or other and discovered a new shop mascot as well. Why he decided that was where he wanted to be is beyond me, but I guess this means that spring is here :)