Tuesday 11th June 2019

Music: Röyksopp and Dido

It’s time to do the wiring. This is going to be long job as there are wires all over the place! There are some things that must be done to make sure that it’s maintainable in the future like labelling as it’s easy to lose track of where wires are going from and to and obviously it’s got to look neat and tidy. First thing is to look at suitable routings for the bundles and make sure they make ‘sense’ then start laying them out. This is one of those jobs that you just have to keep going at and eventually it’s finished!

First up is to protect from reverse currents when the master switch is turned off. This is accomplished by placing a diode across the positive and negative posts on the battery contacter.
It looks a quite simple but it gets the job done.
One of the easy jobs is to run all the ‘earths’ back to the earthing block. After terminating each wire with a insulated female connector a label is attached to the lead. These are just printed off a electronic dymo babbling machine and seem to be suitable for the job.
Once the earth is connected, a quick check of the circuit logic and then I can temporarily power up the circuit.
Whilst the screen is powered up on main power I thought I’d update the system software to the latest version. The software has a boot loader that updates all the other attached devices like the autopilot and knob panel.
Last job today was to run the G5 to GMU11 loom in and secure in place.