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April 2023 – I’ve been working on wrapping everything up that I can on the fuselage, firewall back, while waiting for my engine to get finished. I’ve spent a lot of time working on the electrical system, avionics, panel layout, and installing all of the electrical components. It has been a significant learning curve for me trying to understand how to design an electrical system that meets my needs, where and how to install all of the electrical components, and learning basic aircraft wiring techniques and best practices.
Per Bob Nuckolls recommendation, I chose to use multi-slot plastic fuse blocks that accept ATC style blade fuses for my busses. My goal with our electrical system is to have busses that can power my electronic ignition independently, yet charge from one alternator. I hope to accomplish this with a Schottky diode. This will allow for charging the aux battery off the main bus, but won’t let the main bus draw from the aux battery. Additionally, the voltage drop from the diode will result in my avionics running off the main bus under normal operating condition.
I was told that my engine would be done almost a full year ago now, but still waiting on that. Hopefully that gets done soon so I can get going on firewall forward. Then I need to finish up my wings, paint, and will be eying final assembly.
02/12/2021 – I don’t have much for a progress report but I’ve included a few pictures anyways. I’m just knocking out as many of the little easy tasks as I can find.
When I tried to install the fuel and brake lines I found that I was missing a few parts. Those came in so I’m hoping to work on those this weekend!
