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Roadster's Web Site
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Date: 10-21-2006
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Number of Hours: 8.00
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Brief Description: SportAir Electrical Systems Workshop (1)
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Today Gordon and I attended Day 1 of a two-day SportAir Workshop on "Electrical Systems, Wiring and Avionics", held at Lewis University in Romeoville, IL. Gordon had signed up for this class months ago, but he talked me into joining him in the last few days. Although Gordon is a lot farther along on his project than I am, and he's likely to use this subject matter sooner than I am, it still turned out to be a good class for me to attend. It was very informative and offered good, hands-on practice projects relevant to the typical tasks undertaken by a home-builder when wiring up an experimental class airplane. Although I'm very mechanically-oriented, I don't have much experience with electrical systems and electronics, so I really learned a lot in this workshop. Today's big project was wiring up a working intercom harness using a soldering iron, two headset plugs, 22 AWG wire, shrinkwrap tubing, and a 25-pin "D-Sub" plug connector. Although this looks like an easy project, judging strictly by the photo below, it turned out to be a lot more difficult to complete than I anticipated, due to the small size of the pins on the plug. Gordon and I spent most of the afternoon working on this one harness. We both found it quite difficult to read the pin numbers, and extremely difficult to hold and solder the pins and wiring together. The use of a MaxBit soldering stand at each work station, with articulated magnifying glass and allligator clips to hold the small components, proved invaluable, but it took a bit of time to become familiar with this handy tool.
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Intercom Harness Project
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