I've spent a lot of time over the last month reading up on anything I can find regarding electrical wiring and avionics installation. I think I'm going to get to a point where I'm comfortable doing all of that myself. Bought the Aeroelectric book which seems to be the Bible for home builder electrical systems.
I'm enjoying studying all of the schematics and manuals for the avionics. I feel like I understand the interconnect between all the G3x components and I have watched several CAN Bus videos. It's time to start drawing up the schematics for my system. I think it will help me visualize the harness and where everything goes. Some folks just send their component list to Stein and they will draw up the schematic for you; I may get to that point if I struggle but I think I'll try to do it myself. So what software? I have access to several CAD platforms, but I think it can be simpler. I started drawing it up in PowerPoint, but maybe not that simple. I saw someone had posted a diagram on VAF that they did using draw.io and it looked pretty good.
It's free and I've been playing with it the last few days and I think it is going to work well. It maintains connections of the wires, allows good annotation, and seems to have good logic for the display of the wire runs. I made a basic interconnect diagram and I like it so far.
I can see that I'm going to spend many hours over the next year drawing all of these systems up. To more accurately track my total time, I will start logging it.
Purchases: ACS: Aeroelectric ebook.