Woohoo! Instrument Panel is iinstalled ! Late last night I rerouted the hobbs meter siwtch through the Probes and Sensors harness and over to the oil pressure switch. this a.m. I connected the Co-pilot Vent to the NACA intake w/ some scat. then I wired the 'defrost' fans. I had to readjust the heater control cables as they were too short from the firewall to the instrument panel, resulting in the 'insert' not seating well into the instrument sub-panel. Also some fine adjusting so that the heater controls close fully when flush with the instrument panel. did some more 'tyding-up' with tywraps etc. Then, pulled the radios out of the Casita and remounted them into the center stack. connected the batteries, pulled all of the breakers and tested the contactors, then began turning on each radio individually..... They worked !!!! Also the crossfeed works! How cool is that? Next step was to remount the EFIS units. put the pilot unit in with no problem, I had a previous problem with the co-pilot unit binding, which I believe ws related to the co-pilot subpanel not being flush/'in plane' which was putting a bind on the mounting frame & box. I ended up shimmying one of the corners with several washers. then mounted the Co-Pilot EFIS. I had to temporarily mount the center console electronics as they contain the switches for the EFIS & other Avionics. Powered everything up and Viola! I do however have an issue that needs to be trouble shot and that is the EIU trips the circuit breaker. ? ?
Reinstalling Radios and EFIS/MFD
Center Stack powered up!
The whole Panel lit up for the 1st time in the plane!
