{"id":3790,"date":"2018-08-11T20:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2018-08-24T06:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:51:19","slug":"the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=3790","title":{"rendered":"The light at the end of the tunnel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is getting brighter &#8211; it&#8217;s time to start installing and wiring avionics. I&#8217;ve been plotting and planning how to mount the Garmin G3x Touch system, radios and transponders and I&#8217;ve settled on building a tray which will hold all the remote-mounted LRUs, Comm 2 and transponder.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a cardboard mockup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?attachment_id=3791\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3791\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3791\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-15-11.05.43-e1534896687308-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Avionics tray mockup\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-15-11.05.43-e1534896687308-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-15-11.05.43-e1534896687308-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;and the tray with avionics temporarily attached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?attachment_id=3792\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3792\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3792\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.46-e1534896708961-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Avionics tray fitting 1\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.46-e1534896708961-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.46-e1534896708961-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>The GAD 27 and GAD 29 are on the right side. Most of the airframe power interfaces will be through the right firewall passthrough so having these boxes on the right should make wiring a little more straightforward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?attachment_id=3793\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3793\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.28-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"GAD 27 and GAD 29\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.28-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.28-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.28-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.28-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>The GEA 24 engine interface is on the left side as most of the engine sensor wires will come through the left firewall passthrough. Guess where the AoA CPU is going?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?attachment_id=3794\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3794\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.57-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"GEA 24\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.57-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.57-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.57-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-07-27-18.04.57-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>More pics? Sure, I&#8217;m glad you asked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?attachment_id=3810\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3810\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3810\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-06-14.14.10-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-06-14.14.10-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-06-14.14.10-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-06-14.14.10-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-06-14.14.10-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?attachment_id=3812\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3812\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3812 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-06-16.26.22-e1534932429369-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The avionics tray from overhead\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-06-16.26.22-e1534932429369-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/2018-08-06-16.26.22-e1534932429369-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is getting brighter &#8211; it&#8217;s time to start installing and wiring avionics. I&#8217;ve been plotting and planning how to mount the Garmin G3x Touch system, radios and transponders and I&#8217;ve settled on building a tray which will hold all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=3790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics","category-wiring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}