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Apr 15, 2024 6.0 Panel wiring - getting close Category: Avionics
Just continuing one wire at a time. Wires are a guess for the past several days a d are surely low compared to how much time I spend thinking about this. It is all consuming. Had to order some more wire and more shrink tube labels. Amazon told me that I've ordered 10 cartridges at $33 a piece. Ouch!

Was not happy with the trim disconnect switch on the panel. Really wanted it as a breaker, but it was awkward as I'd like to keep it on the essential bus. Also read of challenges of meeting FAR requirements for “flight critical” avionics on fuse panels that are not accessible in flight. Made the decision to abandon the ebus fuse holder and move the whole bus to panel breakers. This solves a couple problems at the expense of pricey breakers. Overall I think it is better though and I ran all the wires long enough that I don't need to rerun anything.

Also moving the GAD27 to the main bus breakers. That puts almost all LRUs on breakers except the MFD, GAD13, COM2 and transponder.

Made a wire checklist based on the original master interconnect diagram. Just added wires to the list and deleted from the diagram until all wires were gone. Then used that list to QC my installation. Already caught a couple of omissions. Just need to punch out that list and it'll be ready to go back on the bench.


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