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Builder Name:Allen Thoe   -  
Project:   Vans - RV-14A   -   VIEW REPORTS
Total Hours:3118
Total Flight Time:8
Total Expense:$21996.00
Start/Last Date:Jul 01, 2020 - No Finish Date
 
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May 28, 2023     Canopy harness - (20 hours)       Category: Interior Finish
After finishing the avionics and testing all other connections I wires the canopy harness. I could not use Van's instructions exactly as the led strip I used was a little different and I wanted to make it span the entire bottom of the canopy rail. So instead of using their routing I decided to combine the canopy latch wires with the wires and then connected those all together at the molex.
I also could not use their mounting brackets that are in the canopy frame as they interfered with my G3X mounts. So I just used an Adele clamp to secure the wires together and then some RTV to give the connection wires a little bit of strength. These wires are all fairly easy to get to so should I have to replace them it would not be a big deal.
The canopy latch was a little bit of a pain. The hole was just large enough to get two wires though. I used some safety wire to “fish” them out and then it was fairly straight forward.
The only issue I had was that the switch was not fully engaging with the canopy latch pin. It was a fraction too short. So I built up the edge of the switch just a tad and now everything is working as intended.


 


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