Instrument Panel IV
7/17/2005 8 hours
Bob from the hangar next door suggested using some black fibre washers under the screws on my panel, to help protect the paint some. I took the advice, and ordered some up from McMaster Carr. Today's first task was to go through all the screws on the panel and add the washers.
8/28/2005 9.5 hours
When Mike came over, he brought with him the GX-60 that he might let me buy. I say might, coz he's all up in the air as to what to do for the panel in his RV-10. Does he go Blue Mountain, or does he use the MX-20 he has. What a dilemma! He wanted to have a play with everything to see how it worked. Unfortunately, for some reason, it all didn't so I have some trouble shooting to do. The GX-60 worked OK, and EFIS 1 worked OK, but I need to figure out why the E1 isn't getting any analogue signals from the GX. Hmmm. What would be nice is a test set. Maybe I haven't got the settings right on the E1 for inputs, I don't know yet. I snapped a picture of the panel with a GX in place so we can see what it looks like... Nice!
Today, I finished up the panel with the final piece of avionics. I got a pretty good deal on a GX-60, which is what I've been holding out for. Here it is...
I had to mount the antenna too, which is mounted to the firewall. Originally, I had planned to have it next to the BMA antenna on the right side of the firewall but the antenna was so big it got in the way of the oil door (which I also have in progress right now). Of course, I forgot to snap a pic of that. Typical.
One thing I need to sort out is feeding the GX-60 altitude info so it can be used properly for GPS approaches. I'm not sure if I can connect the SL-60 Transponder to it with the serial interfaces and feed it that way. If I can, then great, otherwise I'll be looking for an altitude serialiser to convert the grey code encoder output to serial for the GX to read. If anybody out there reading this knows the answer to my questions, please send me an email.