{"id":648,"date":"2011-07-24T02:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-07-24T02:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T02:47:18","slug":"648","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"More avionics wiring."},"content":{"rendered":"

6 hours.<\/p>\n

That six hours includes both avionics wiring and mounting the phone\/mic jack tabs to the bottom of the panel. The day didn’t start out so great. I’m missing a tool and some wire. The tool is a Daniels K42 positioner. It clips into the AFM8 crimper so that when a wire with a d-sub pin on the end is inserted, it crimps at exactly the right place. I have the K13-1, which is great for standard density d-sub pins, but everything in on the GNS430W and the audio panel are high density d-sub connectors. These puppies are spendy, I can tell you that. Little device about the size of a lug nut will run you $65 new from SteinAir. I found one used on crimptools.com for $25. Hopefully it’s not trashed.<\/p>\n

The wire is 2-conductor shielded 22 gauge. This runs all over the place connecting audio from and to various devices. I have some single-conductor left over from the mag wiring, and I have some 3-conductor I bought a long time ago, but no 2-conductor anywhere. <\/p>\n

I did manage to get aircraft power and aircraft ground wired into the COM connector. One’s for transmit, one’s for receive, I guess.
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At that point, I figured I was done wiring, so I trimmed and painted my panel extension tabs for the mic and phone jacks.
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They actually look OK. I noticed that from the side, you can see the wiring tabs on the backside, but there will be black shrinkwrap tubing wrapped around them, so you won’t really notice.
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Both sides seem OK.
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Then I threw on the Synthpop\/Futurepop stream on di.fm and started going over the 430W installation manual. Handily enough, there’s a diagram in the back, page H-4, I believe, that shows the interconnects between the 430W and the GMA340 audio panel.<\/p>\n

The Mic audio connection uses a 3-conductor shielded wire, so I was able to wire the 430W end of that.
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This’ll probably be my last entry for a few days. Going to MI to see my dad. When I get back from my trip, my K42 and my 2 conductor cable should be here, so I’ll be able to finish the harness and plug it all in. Then we see if I can catch tower and ground at SMO on my newly installed stack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6 hours. That six hours includes both avionics wiring and mounting the phone\/mic jack tabs to the bottom of the panel. The day didn’t start out so great. I’m missing a tool and some wire. The tool is a Daniels K42 positioner. It clips into the AFM8 crimper so that when a wire with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}