9/10/2010 - Time to start working on the wiring I've decided to heavily document this wiring process for my RV using Van's pre-wired wiring harness. I admit that I don't know squat about wiring, so maybe someone out there in RV land can benefit fro ... read more
9/14/2010 - Time to drill some holes in the panel! Spooky? Ya' dang right it is!! I'm really checking out this drawing to make sure I don't screw up. First things first. I have to drill the first 3/4" hole in the panel where the ignition switch goes. ... read more
9/19/2010 - The Switch/Breaker kit has arrived! This kit was put together to correspond to the Wiring Harness kit that I received a while back. I should have ordered them at same time, but I didn''t even know that this switch/breaker existed. I als ... read more
10/12/2010 - The Garage Rat from Hell For the past 2 weeks I have been trying to catch a large rat in my garage. My wife has a bag of birdseed in the garage and the rat just loves the birdseed. We tried putting a plastic top on the birds ... read more
10/23/2010 - Time to hook the wires to the panel switches and breakers I like this part of the instructions where it says to sit in your aircraft and put the panel in your lap to install the wiring harness wires to the panel. I realized that I have never actually sat in ... read more
10/31/2010 - Hooked up the Master Switch wires The instructions say to do this last, but I wanted to test some of my wiring now. So I used my new #8 wire crimpers to attach the connector to the largest wire. It took both hands to make this crimp. ... read more
12/5/2010 - Backtracking on stuff left undone Here's where things get a little unorganized for me. I really like the concept of step-wise procedures in putting things together. "Do this, now do that". Maybe it's from being a computer programmer f ... read more
12/18/2010 - Time to install the trim control I know that this doesn't necessarily fall under the category of "Electrical", but for me it does. In order to put on the control stick grips with the push-to-talk button in them, all this control stic ... read more
1/9/2011 - Time to cut the panel for the Dynon EFIS 100 mount tray This is a well-built mount tray, but when I was laying it out on the panel next the GPS mounting brackets, it looked a little off to me. So I pulled out my trusty old framing square and sure enough, I ... read more
1/24/2011 - Now to cut the holes for the Airspeed Indicator and Altimeter I love excuses to buy new tools. Ever since taking woodshop in Junior High School, I've always wanted one of these spindle sanders. It's a round cylinder that spins and goes up and down. Great for san ... read more
2/19/2011 - Put in the F-746 Engine Control Bracket While I'm Waiting for my SL40 VHF Comm Transceiver and Garmin GTX-327 Digital Transponder, I decided to drill the holes in the engine control bracket. Since I'm going with a fixed pitch prop, I decide ... read more
2/21/2011 - Cut the hole for the Dynon EMS-D120 Engine Monitoring System I did the same thing here with the D120 as I did with Dynon EFIS D-100. I used the mounting as a guide to draw the hole in the panel and then cut it out with my jigsaw. As I mentioned before the Dynon ... read more
3/7/2011 - Time to hang some avionics! I've been looking forward to this part for a long time. After all the lamenting over what to put in the panel, this part is really fun, pulling all the parts together into a functioning panel. Here, I ... read more
4/21/2011 - Bought Van's Intercom Wiring Harness The first time I saw this harness in the shopping cart on Van's website, I thought "no way", it costs more than the friggin' intercom! So I decided to wire the intercom myself. After looking for the r ... read more
