October 30, 2005

I spent a bit more time wrapping up electrical stuff inside the cockpit too today. Mostly the trim indicators. Here, I’ve put some Molex plugs on the indicators. I made them different (male and female) so that the plugs couldn’t be mixed up when connecting them to the main harness. If there’s only one way to do it, it will always be right when it goes together right?! The white wires are for the aircraft dimmer circuit. Something I haven’t even considered yet. I did by a dimming kit, but haven’t fitted it yet.

The elevator trim wasn’t fully wired yet either. I’d run the multi wire cable from the rear of the plane to the front ages ago, but never did anything about it after that. I think at some point, I got bored with running wires, and took a long break from it! I wired it all in properly, and connected in the Matronics Governor III. It seems to run a bit slow at the moment, but this can be fixed by a couple of turns of the speed screw under the seat cushions (where the governors are located).

Here, you can see the trim indicators all working. Next task is the flap indicator. There isn’t too much left to do in here now. Just the fuel pump, and the fuel flow transducr after the flap indicator. Then, it’s a wrap! By that time, hopefully I’ll have the new prop cable from Van’s, and I’ll be able to get the centre console in for good.