Saturday, October 25, 2025

Wiring Never Ends

Most of the wire routing directly behind the panel is cleaned up now.  The only remaining connection to finish is the "front" airframe connector to the ACM.  I just need to pull the field wire from the alternator and pin it in that Dsub, then it'll be all set.


The area forward of the subpanel is getting close.  There are just a handful of random wires to run yet, then it will be as organized as it can be.  While it's not pretty because of the various wire lengths I had to deal with (lesson learned - the next plane will be better), it's all solidly mounted.




To do the rest of the firewall forward wire routing, I needed to get the scat tubing for the heater muff inlet in place.  I temporarily put the right aft baffle in place and got the scat tubing routed around the engine mount.  No matter what I did I couldn't keep the tubing from rubbing against the engine mount though.  I used a couple of adel clamps and put RTV between the tubing and engine mount to minimize chaffing. 


Routing the alternator power and field wire back to the firewall is a little awkward.  I made some steel standoffs and attached them to the engine using the oil sump bolts.  Then I attached the adel clamps to the standoffs.


I used the same approach on the other side of the engine for the starter power wire.