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Date:  1-23-2020
Number of Hours:  1.50
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Brief Description:  Installing the Rear cockpit light rheostat

I first decided on the position of the rear rheostat that controls the rear cockpit lighting. As an overall plan, I am trying to keep things off of the armrest. With that said, I did not like the visibility of the wiring runs when I thought through all the various bulkhead placements… so, to the armrest it goes. The rheostat has a very small footprint – not very high and not very wide – the whole is drilled to 13/64” so there is not much to get in the way. It will also be in the forward part of the arm rest and should not interfere with normal arm placement. With the rheo in the armrest I them formulated where the controller would be mounted and made sure that the rheo and controller would not interfere with the other wires and switches. It would have been a problem had I side mounted it on the panel like the USB and the seat heat switch – so I didn’t want to do that. There is already a tooling hole on the forward portion of the arm rest so I drilled the rheo hole in that spot. Because it is fairly out of the way, it took an angle drill bit to drill the hole. Lastly, I updated the electrical schematic.
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