Sunday, December 15, 2024

ADAHRS & Flap Position Sensor

Catching up on a couple of days of work, although it's work that is 90% thought and 10% result.  The ADAHRS is mounted on the J channel and rib behind the baggage bulkhead.  I don't want to rivet it in place until after the top skin is on since having it in place would make it difficult to buck the skin rivets.  I want as much as possible ready to rivet once the skin is on though.  The pitot, static and AOA tubes insert into the ADAHRS from the front side and the dsub for the wiring on the aft side.  I don't love that the tubes would just be supported by the ports on the ADAHRS though, so I decided to make a bracket to rivet forward of the ADAHRS to pass the tubes through.  I knew there was a reason I keep all of my castoff parts!  I cut a chunk out of my junked rear wing spar and repurposed it for the bracket.  I'm just going to call the pre-existing holes from the wing spar lightening holes.  I just saved a few hundredths of an ounce!


One of the many other tiny tasks I have to complete is getting the flap position sensor set up.  I played around with it for hours trying to get the connection to the flap arm correct, but never quite got it right (the big movement of the flap arm has to translate into only 1" of movement of the position sensor).  I ordered some longer threaded push rod, so once I get that I'll take another stab and it.