{"id":4031,"date":"2019-07-20T12:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2019-07-29T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:38:25","slug":"wiring-and-plumbing-the-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=4031","title":{"rendered":"Wiring and plumbing the wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re getting close to Oshkosh and I wanted to get as much done as I could before our trip, so over the weekend I installed the pitot tube and wired landing lights, OAT probe and pitot heat to their circuits in the fuselage.<\/p>\n

Here are the Baja Designs Squadron Pro landing lights connected and doing their thing. Not terribly bright in this picture but they hurt to look at, and that’s a good thing…<\/p>\n

\"Landing<\/a><\/p>\n

No post on landing light installation would be complete without proof that the GAD-27 can indeed flash the lights…<\/p>\n

https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Wig-wags.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

I had fitted and plumbed the pitot tube several years ago so installation was relatively straightforward – just had to connect the AN plumbing and heater connector, then screw it to the pitot mast. And yes indeed, it gets hot…<\/p>\n

\"Heatet<\/a>I screwed up the fuel tank feed lines, so some surgery was required to install an AN union and line to the left fuel tank. Once that was done, I reinstalled the vent line I fabricated a few years back. The RG-316 coax you see snaking out from the rubber gasket is a line that connects a Princeton capacitive fuel level sender to the fuel tank’s BNC connector.<\/p>\n

\"Left<\/a><\/p>\n

Same thing on the right wing…<\/p>\n

\"Right<\/a>Plumbed the right wing as well, and installed the fuel tank support bolts on both sides.<\/p>\n

\"Pitot-static<\/a><\/p>\n

Connected the OAT probe and pitot-static lines in the cockpit.<\/p>\n

\"More<\/a>…and finished connecting the right fuel tank. Had to do another splice job on the fuel line, but it came out fine.<\/p>\n

And now we’re off to Oshkosh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re getting close to Oshkosh and I wanted to get as much done as I could before our trip, so over the weekend I installed the pitot tube and wired landing lights, OAT probe and pitot heat to their circuits … Continue reading →<\/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":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","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=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}