{"id":865,"date":"2008-09-01T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T22:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=865"},"modified":"2012-10-21T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:40:18","slug":"wrapped-up-work-on-the-heated-pitot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Wrapped up work on the heated pitot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrapped up work on the heated pitot by wiring up its electrical connector. I purchased the pitot as used-serviceable from our local flying club; got a great price, but the connector wasn&#8217;t with the pitot. That meant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftspruce.com\/catalog\/inpages\/pitottubeconnect.php\" target=\"_blank\">buying one from Aircraft Spruce<\/a> for the exorbitant price of $57.75. But it has an inspection stamp on it, so it must be worth the price. Soldering the pins on the connector was no problem; 14 gauge Tefzel wire was chosen to support the expected 10 amp current draw from one of the cockpit electrical busses. Here are the soldered pins&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_866\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_pitot_pins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-866\" title=\"wing_pitot_pins\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_pitot_pins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_pitot_pins.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_pitot_pins-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connector pins soldered<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The only tricky parts here were routing wires to the connector so that it could be removed with the pitot tube, and installing the ground such that the crimp connector could be visually inspected and disconnected if necessary. Some plastic tubing and a couple of tie-wraps made a good standoff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_867\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_pitot_wiring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-867\" class=\"size-full wp-image-867\" title=\"wing_pitot_wiring\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_pitot_wiring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_pitot_wiring.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wing_pitot_wiring-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pitot heat wiring<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrapped up work on the heated pitot by wiring up its electrical connector. I purchased the pitot as used-serviceable from our local flying club; got a great price, but the connector wasn&#8217;t with the pitot. That meant buying one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=865\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}