Joshua's RV-9A Project

More wiring work tonight, doing some bundle tying and terminations.

• Tied up the bundles forward of the subpanel, so that things would be at the correct place for cutting to length and termination.
• Crimped the Dsub pins and installed into the connectors on the Vertical Power CU.
• Shrunk the labels onto all the wires currently running to the CU.
• Combed out bundles and rearranged some support brackets for better runs and to avoid chafing.  Also added some split brake tubing over a couple nearby edges, in case vibration moves the bundles closer over time.
• Rerouted the master buss feed to travel through a rib using a snap bushing, rather than under it with an adel clamp; this gives me better separation between that big wire and the bundle of other wires that has to pass under it.
• Changed the power feed to the light dimmer to use the spare slot on the terminal block I mounted to the lid, to use as a buss point for all the interior lights.  (The dimmer module is fed from here, which drives 4 channels of lighting; a line runs to the map light panel overhead, and a third line will provide power to the annunciator lights).
• Combed out the mess of ground wires at the firewall, crimped on connectors, shrunk the labels, and landed them on the ground block.  Added a ziptie base to secure them on the route up to the block.

Got word today that my avionics are ready to be picked up, once I get them some money.  Hopefully by the end of the week, since I don’t have much going on next weekend…it’d be exciting to have the panel fired up by this time next week.  It’s also time to measure for control cables and fuel lines, and order that stuff up, since it’s all made-to-order pieces which may take some time.

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