I worked on finishing off the light and switch locations in the bottom panel center area. Since this is a prototype panel I am going to make the holes for the lights and see if I want to use them at all or not.....or maybe even partial use.
I hooked up the lights I bought from Steins and they are such that the output is not super bright so you don't need a dimmer on them. I am going to see if they can be seen in daylight and how bright they are in the dark. If you can't tell if they are on or not in daylight.....then what's the use in having them....and if they are too bright in the dark then that poses another issue...but if they turn up being Goldilocks "just right" then all will work out great!
All the lights will only be on for a little while but during mostly critical phases of flight so I want to see if they are worth it. I checked with the middle switch (round circle) to be certain the spacing will allow me to have room for labels.
That pretty much finishes out the layout....now I have to get some real coordinates and dimensions. I felt it would be best to make the main 10 inch PDF display my "zero" point to pull all the dimensions off of as I will have to move the machine ram around from one side to the other to cut half of the panel at a time since the machine doesn't quite have the travel to knock the whole panel out with one set-up.
