I put together the left-side breakout connector, which is a mixed power/signal connector (TE CPC series 4). For the 10AWG EFII battery wires (which are the main reason to have this connector, so I can easily disconnect the hot battery wires from the rest of the panel without going into the tailcone), they're supposedly standard open-barrel crimping, but my generic crimp tool from ATS did a pretty horrible job at it, ruining the fancy expensive socket:
Bad crimp on $23 10AWG CPC socket :/
Part of the problem was that the crimp tool "pinched" the corner of the connector as it was compressing. I managed to crimp them properly on the second attempt by trimming the tabs, compressing the sides slightly to make it narrower and not caught on the corner of the tool, and by crimping the insulation first before crimping the wire (which left a small mark on the wire but oh well). With that, and by adding all the signal wires, I completed the left-side CPC:
Completed left-side breakout plug
The Aerosport interior panels have a recess that occupies most of the bottom part of the under-panel sides, so to route wires away from that area, we installed some Click Bond mounts on the sides:
Clickbond fasteners to secure the right-side wires behind the Aerosport panels
Battery cable attached to Clickbond fastener
Left-side wires running through Clickbond fasteners
With that, I could tell the wire lengths for the left breakout receptacle and install pins on those wires. This time, I managed to do a much more decent job with the 10AWG pins on the first try:
EFII/bus manager battery wires pinned for the left-side breakout connector
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