TitleGarrison
“No bird ever flew nonstop from New York to Tokyo, or raced 15 miles high at triple the speed of sound.
But birds do something else.
They do not conquer the air; they romance it..”
Peter Garrison
HoursAndCounting
Jur's RV7 Aircraft Factory
2917 hours and counting
Some decisions in life are bare of any obvious logic
Instruments / Electrics
The instruments and electrical pages describe my efforts to install all components that are involved in the electrical system.
The airplane will have a 12Volt electrical system which is supported by an Odyssey PC680 Extreme Gel Battery. This battery is well known in vans aircraft planes and is also popular with race cars.
The heart of the instrument panel is the Dynon Avionics HDX1100 system. Next to the main screen, I will install the autopilot sub panel, the SV2 intercom and the knob control panel
The radio will be Dynon 8.33 com radio with vertical panel and the transponder will be a TRIG TT22 mode S.
Two backup analog instruments will be installed : the speed indicator and altimeter.
The panel will also include a CO Guardian CO detection unit.
The throttle and mixture are controlled by an aftermarket throttle quadrant.
The lightning of the aircraft includes 2 Aeroled Pulsar navlights and a suntail light as well as the Aerosun VX Landing and taxi lights.
Articles in Electrical/Systems
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1. Planning electrical / instruments
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2. Electrical FFW
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3. Systems
- 01/04/2023 - Groundblock and Throttle body - 5h30
- 07/04/2023 - Throttle quadrant - 6h
- 08/04/2023 - Install transponder antenna - 6h30
- 10+11/04/23 - Installing COM radio antenna - 6h
- 22/04/2023 - Install transponder box and VPX - 4h
- 02/06/23 - final placement of gps and antenna's - 1h30
- 07/06/2023 - rivet shunt and fuse doubler - 1h
- 09/0623 - Transponder coax cable -1h
- 20+23/06/2023 - Drawing panel layout and drilling first holes for switches - 8h
- 07+08/07/2023 - wiring switches and testing VPX operation on laptop - 6h
- 13/07/2023 - routing static line for adahrs - 1h
- 18+19/07/2023 - cutting hole for analog speed and altimeter - 3h30
- 07/10/2023 - POS12 sensor and conduit - 5h30
- 20/10/2023 - Elevator trim wiring and motor - 6h30
- 22/10/2023 - install pins on trim and trim switches rewiring - 5h
- 23/10/2023 - Bus bar 1 - 1h
- 18/12/2023 - Trig, panel switches and Dynon/VPX interface - 6h
- 29/12/2023 - Transponder wiring and master trim disconnect - 5h30
- 31/12/2023 - Connecting COM radio Coax to antenna - 3h30
- 04/01/2024 - Antenna rework and drilling for pitot line - 2h
- 13/01/2024 - TRIG TXPR play and starting Intercom - 1h
- 20/01/2024 - ADAHRS work and USB charger - 3h
- 20/05/2024 - Aeroleds VX Landinglight 1 - 2h
- 31/05/2024 - Aeroleds VX Landinglighhts 2 - 3h30
- 05/06/2024 - Aerosun VX landinglights 3 - 4h
- 18/06/2024 - Aerosun VX landinglights 4 - 2h
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4. EFIS system Dynon
- 14/04/2023 - Dynon GPS antenna - 5h
- 17/05/2023 - OAT sensor install - 1h
- 24/06/2023 - Dynon EMS and Network hub drilling - 3h
- 30/06/2023 - Shunt final installation - 1h30
- 20/07/2023 - Cutting dynon modules holes in panel - 5h
- 21/07/2023 - cutting Dynon intercom module hole in panel - 4h30
- 25-09-2023 - HDX1100 cutout and pushrod - 5h
- 06/10/2023 - MK2000 nutplate install - 5h30
- 28/10/2023 - Pitot & AOA line, Dynon net hub - 6h30
- 16/12/2023 - Dynon HDX install and first boot - 4h
- 26/12/2023 - Bringing the plane out to test GPS + ADAHRS install - 4h30
- 25/01/2024 - Dynon COM radio - 4h
- 02/02/2024 - Sensor calibration - 2h
Electrics/Systems
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In some articles, I made corrections at later date on the original article to rectify my own stupidities or faults. Read through the entire article if you intend to use my findings/experiences on your own project !
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