Archive for September, 2013

P-mag wiring

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

Time to run wires through this mess of engine mount structure and over to the P-mag:

An adel clamp on a handy screw provides strain relief for the incoming wires. And here we are looking at that obnoxious non-aircraft connector again.

I bought a cheap wire ferrule crimping kit, as recommended by certain folks who've been down this road before me. The ferrules are basically just little tubes which get swaged onto the ends of the wires.

This is what a wire looks like after having a ferrule crimped on, and then adhesive heatshrink tube applied as a further strain relief. Now at least there aren't any bare wire strands to get broken by that terrible connector.

Wires go along the upper engine mount tube, then loop down to the P-mag:

Hard to get photos of this area, too much stuff in the way:

Oil pressure hose reinstalled:

I actually didn't get around to testing these connections yet – I will eventually put 12V power on the airplane and see if the LED on the P-mag lights up.