Continuing the main wiring harness surgery, I remapped the fuse block wires from what SteinAir originally did - eliminating a few more wires from the conduit to the overhead console (e.g. no reason to have separate wires and fuses for the front and rear overhead lights), and adding the Spartan3 AFR sensor (which I kept on the main bus instead of the Bus Manager on purpose - I only want it to start heating the sensor after the engine is running, and it has a mode where it'll start 3 minutes after being powered on, so on my start checklist, turning on the main bus is the last step before hitting the starter (and before that the avionics are powered by the IBBS, while the EFII system is completely independent of the main bus):
Changes to be made to the fuse block wiring
Updated fuse block and wiring
For connecting the door relays, I got connectors that attach together, and wired them directly from the fuse block:
Door indicator relays attached to sockets
Door indicator relay sockets with power wiring
I then chose the position to attach those relays (nutplates will be added later), and laced those wires:
Fuse block, door indicator relays and GAD29 in place, with wire bundle tidied up
I protected the main bus bar (that connects the tailcone solenoids) against accidental contact with heatshrink:
Tailcone bus bar with heat shrink protecting non-contact areas
I also rewired the EDS-4IP's distributors per MH's recommendation, which means a single power wire pair for all of them (the controller's pins are connected together anyway, and all my distributors are near one another, so that saves me a bunch of wiring up to the overhead console:
Updated Mountain High EDS-4IP connection diagram
For the Spartan 3 air-fuel ratio sensor, I soldered a Molex Ultra-Fit (172287-2308) connector to the board - the connector is only 8 pins (vs the original 10), but the last 2 pins are not used anyway. This will be much more secure than the original screw-in connector, and as mentioned on the last post I'll 3D print a custom case for it:
Spartan 3 AFR sensor with Molex connector soldered on
I then moved the main harness back onto the panel to figure out its attachment - with Adel clamps on the VP-X screw holes on the left, and figured out the right places to add holes/nutplates for Adel clamps on the right:
Tidied-up GTN/GNX wire bundle, ready for re-lacing
Right-side main wire harness held in place with Adel clamps
I attached and wired the essential bus bar and fuel pump relay to the back of the panel substrate:
Essential bus bar connected to circuit breakers and fuel pump relay
I then decided I didn't like this :) The wires going all the way down to the relay felt weird, so I swapped the relay and the bus bar locations, whch looked much cleaner:
Essential bus bar connected to circuit breakers and fuel pump relay, but swapped positions
Finally, I re-laced the main wire harness, which gave it a nice and secure finish (I'll also add some edge grommet to the subpanel hole to protect it):
Re-laced GTN/GNX wire bundle going through subpanel (still without edge grommet)
Re-laced GTN/GNX wire bundle
Re-laced main wire harness
The only part of the panel wiring that I'm leaving for later are the EFII wiring (since I don't have the LRUs yet) and the breakout connectors. There's also of course the rest of the wiring that's not behind the panel (back to the tailcone, in the tunnel, and firewall forward).
I riveted the VP-X attachment extension, then attached the essential bus bar to the panel substrate, right next to where the circuit breakers sit:
Essential bus bar attached to panel substrate
Continuing with the wire harness surgery, I was worried about having enough space for all the wires and cables in the conduit to the overhead console. The Mountain High EDS-4IP (oxygen system) had four 4-wire shielded cables which was kinda bulky, but 2 wires in each of those were power and ground, so I checked in with them and they told me it's fine to run a single power and ground unshielded pair to all of them (since they'll be in the same general area), so I took all of those out and will replace them with four 2-wire shielded cables which seems a lot easier to fit. On the cable to the tank valve, SteinAir also hadn't run a wire for the regulator pressure sensor (controller pin 20 to valve pin 8), so I reused one of the 4-wire cables to do that (replacing the previous 3-wire they used for the tank valve):
Reworking the Mountain High tank valve and distributor wires
I wired the battery fault LEDs, by adding Molex SL connectors (so they can be easily removed from the panel, and splicing the main harness wire that went from the GEA24 to the batteries to connect those:
Battery fault LEDs with Molex SL connectors attached
Battery fault wires attached in place
Last but not least, of the 4 wire bundles that connect to the GEA24, 3 (J241, J243, J244) have some or all wires that need to go into the main harness, so I bundled them all into a single harness and routed the wires to the right exit point, while also adding the EFII connections (RPM, fuel flow, fuel pressure, AFR) and removing an unnecessary Molex connector between the bundles:
GEA24 bundle including most of the J243 and J244 connector wires
(J242 only connects to the engine sensors, so I kept that one separate, and also left other wires that will go into the engine compartment outside the bundle)
Next I need to rework the fuse block wires, and then I can finally mount the bundle into the panel again, this time figuring out attachment points and re-doing the lacing (though there are still a few details/wires to figure out, like what I'll do about yaw trim). I can also probably start running the side wire bundles in the airplane (and adjusting/trimming their sleeving since they'll be mostly inside conduits).
