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Apr 02, 2020 6 pulled wires, tested lights Category: Lighting
Tied a foam earplug to a string and sucked it through the l/h wing with a shop vac, then used the string to pull wires.

-Ran two #14 wires for pitot heat and will ground it back in the fuselage.
-Ran a shielded #18 triple to the wingtip for nav/strobe per install instructions

Didn't have any #20 or #22 wire in my stash, so I ordered some from Airparts yesterday. The didn't have any locally but had a couple of spools brought up from their Florida store overnight for me so I drove over to pick it up this afternoon. They are pretty much on lockdown right now due to Covid-19 so I paid for it via cc over the phone and when I got there they had it sitting out on a will call table in the breezeway. Didn't see a living soul. This is the new normal right now :(

-Ran a #20 to the wingtip for landing lights. (Lights draw max 3 amps, so #20 is adequate for 15' run)
-Ran a #22 to wingtip for taxi light (draws 1 amp max, so #22 is adequate for 15' run).
- Landing lights will be locally grounded

Did a couple of molex pins on the pitot heat wiring. The molex crimper I got from SteinAir works ok, but requires two separate actions actions for crimping the wire and the insulation. Got spoiled with the pro level stuff I used at brand C many years ago. Will likely finish that up the wing wiring tomorrow.

Bench tested the landing lights before installing and discovered that one of them works fine but one has a failed LED. I emailed Paul at FlyLed to see how to get a replacement under warranty, but it's a bummer because it's the one I've already installed nutplates on. I can move fwd with the other one, but I hope it's not a hassle to get this one replaced, especially since we've got the Covid-19 quarantine going on right now and it has to come from Australia.


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