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Jan 31, 2024 4 Pulled wing wiring Category: Wings
I pulled all the wiring from the fuselage today. I'm all the maneuvering over the last couple of years, the strings I had planned to leave in the wing conduits for today got removed for whatever reason. So the first order of business today was to run a stiff wire through from the wingtip, then use that to pull a string back through. I then used that string to pull wires.

The hardest part of this operation is getting wiring started in the conduit from the fuselage side, because while you can see down in the wing root joint, it isn't big enough to get your hand down in there. None of the pass through grommets in the fuselage align with the conduit, so everything has a kind of S curve as it goes through that area.

I found that once I got wiring in the wing root area, I could reach in through the inboard inspection panel and get my fingertips on the end of the wire to get it started in the conduit. Once it was started, it was cake.

I debated with myself for a while about whether to run the archer antenna coax separate from everything else, but ultimately decided that I could move it later if this simplest solution results in some sort of interference.

At this point, while some stuff branches off mid span (autopilot bundle and pitot heat) and some stuff runs all the way to the tip, it all runs together through the corrugated conduit that was installed during wing construction,

Tomorrow I need to start terminating stuff to where it connects, and I also still need to pull the wires that terminate basically at the inboard inspection panel. which is the OAT probe on the left and the taxi camera on the right

I'll include a couple of pix just because, but they aren't very exciting. just wires hanging out of the wingtips at this point


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