Way back when I first started this project with purchased wings, I built landing light mounts and prepped them for the FlyLED setup. This week, I got that stuff off the shelf and actually got it installed.

With this setup, the wire attachment at the actual fixtures is kind of tight. Also the lights are too big to fit in through a lightening hole from behind. You pretty much have to feed them in through the leading edge cutout, then maneuver the mounting brackets in through the same hole, then mount the brackets, then attach the light boards to the brackets.

All that said to explain why I installed long leads from the light unit and put a plug in at the outboard wing rib.The leads have black snakeskin wire sleeve over them for some abrasion resistance and are secured so that they won't chafe as they snake through there. It's quite common to use molex connectors for stuff like this, but I was hoping for something a bit more moisture resistant so I've gone with Deutch wedge loc environmental connectors. While note truly waterproof, they have rubber gaskets at both the back shell and the mating surfaces. I left enough service loop at the wingtip that if they turn out to not be robust enough for this application I can replace them on down the road.

One set of wires has to come out of the face of the unit, so it goes up over the top of the bracket before it travels aft. I secured it with a blob of clear E1000 where it goes over the bracket so that vibration won't cut through.

The grounds for this are terminated locally at the outboard wing root via a -3 bolt through a tooling hole. After bond brushing this area I alodined it with a bonderite stick. On the L/H side the ground wire from the pitot heater terminates at the same bolt.

You never know what future upgrades may be available, but just in case, I upped the gauge of all these wires. Landing lights are 16 gauge for a 3 amp draw power side, taxi lights are a 18 gauge for a 1 amp draw per side. They come together in the floor under the pax seat so that 16 gauge wire is actually pulling 6 amps for about 6 feet, which is well below its capacity.

I tightened up all the wire routing under the floor as well, sir everything is permanently routed and secured in taht area unless something comes up that I haven't thought about