Next up today I installed a couple small LED lights into the wing to illuminate the aileron bellcrank. The idea here is that I will press a button in the cockpit prior to my pre-flight walk-around. The button will trigger a timer which will turn the lights on for 10 minutes. During my walk-around I will be able to kneel under the wing and view the illuminated aileron bellcranks through a perspex window that I'm going to install into the access cover.
That's the idea anyway.
I made up a small angle piece to mount the two LED's, and riveted this across the large lightening hole in one of the wing ribs. I also installed a nutplate so that I could screw down a wiring clamp (see first picture).
Finally I fitted the wires off into a molex plug/socket, and ran them back to the wing root with the other wiring.
Two little LED post lights installed to iluminate the aileron bellcrank
Testing to see that they work
This will make pre-flight inspections of the bellcrank very easy
