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Yay. Another week, another gout attack. And tonight, my EFIS decided to go funny on me. More on that later. Before my knee flared up again, I got the panel painted, in textured black Rustoleum, which looks very nice indeed. I’m rather pleased with how it came out. This is after I cut the holes for the MGL AH2 and the Falcon compass. I reinstalled the panel, added the new instruments and hooked the EFIS back up. It now does this weird thing where large horizontal bars show noise in the blue channel across the screen. Major, major suckage. I now have to de-ass the EFIS and take it back down to MGL in Torrance, where hopefully they can fix it. I hope it’s not something stupid like an aluminum chip on a board somewhere. I think it would just pack up and die if that were the case though.
Tonight, I ran the load wires from the panel to the left and right landing lights and the pitot heat. Why am I doing pitot heat again? Oh yeah. I want to fly IFR in this thing. There are still a million things to do, electrically speaking, but I did order my terminal blocks and audio jacks. While I was chairbound this weekend, I also stripped off the blue outer sheath on the Infinity grips and combined all the ground wires into one, which reduces the thickness of the stick wiring bundle considerably. This is a good thing. Now I don’t have to drill a vast 5/8″ hole in the stick to egress the wires out to where they’ll go to the terminal blocks. A big hole in the control stick may or may not be a bad idea. Van’s doesn’t recommend drilling the stick because it weakens the tubing, especially if the hole is near the pivot. But lots of guys have done it and they’ve not broken a control stick off yet.
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