Today we glued the Archer marker beacon antenna in the left wing tip using Goop. Tomorrow we will add the wires and re-install the tip. See image #2. I wanted an enunciator light to remind me when I had the auxiliary fuel pump on. I had a bad habit of leaving it on for a while after takeoff in the Cherokee. I wired the LED to the pump wire and mounted the LED just to the right of the LED that reminds me that I have a message on the Garmin 430. I also wanted a warning light when the oil pressure or temp reading on the EIS were out of parameters. I wired a red LED to the EIS that will do just that. It will also light up when the EIS is switched on but before starting the engine so it tells us if things are working. It is "sort of" a check out of the system. In image #1 you can see the 3 enunciator lights now installed and wired. Low and behold, they work also! Neither Claude nor I had ever installed BNC connectors before and we have somewhere about 20 of them to install. John, the FAA technician who maintains our ILS and VOR, came down and installed one on the cable from our wing tip nav antenna. When we hooked it up to our Garmin 430, the localizer bar jumped up on our GRT EFIS and this is with a wing tip antenna and while the plane is in the hangar. I hope that it will work as well when we get in the air. The process of applying these connectors is really going to be time consuming!
