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Panel light dimmer

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

I bought an LC-50 dimmer to control the brightness of the various lights in and around my instrument panel. Since the dimmer knobs will be towards the passenger side of the instrument panel, I decided to attach the dimmer module to the aft side of the passenger-side subpanel.

Nutplates on the forward side:

Here it's screwed to the subpanel:

I mounted two potentiometers underneath the passenger's display, and topped them off with some nice-looking knurled aluminum knobs.

None of this is wired yet, but at least the components are physically mounted.

Posted in Electrical/Panel |

Show & Tell

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

We had a few people over to our house this weekend, so I decided to clean up the garage and install everything in the airplane cockpit that I could get my hands on. It turned out to be a nice conversation starter.

This was the first time I'd seen the full interior installed at the same time the panel was all powered up. Looks nice.

There are a few things visible in these photos that I haven't documented on the site yet, but I'll get to them soon.

Of course a lot of what you see here is still yet to be finished, but it was neat to see so many things looking "done" at once. One might even think, looking at these pictures, that it might someday become "actually done".

Posted in Misc |