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My Panel & Wiring

I have been working on my panel layout and electrical system this past week (Nov. 8-14, 2014). It is almost time to cut out the panel!
  1. Panel with red LED cabin lights on.  
 
I put two strips of red LED lights in with homemade dimmers. One strip is above the center console and the...
  2. Wiring on the center tray from the left side.
  3. Wiring on the center tray from the right side. The tray has the Garmin GEA-24 engine/airframe box, the ELT beeper, a USB port, diode & heat sink and...
  4. Wiring on the right side tray and firewall.
  5. Wiring on the right side panel.
  6. Cockpit
  7. Under the panel copilot side
  8. Cockpit from left door. I am going to see if I like having the headset jacks by my left knee, if not I will move it to the baggage compartment. 
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  9. Right window & wing wiring. I made a sheet metal trim piece that mounted with the forward window screws to hold the wiring going up to the wing.
  10. Wiring on the left side. The Garmin G3X display is removed.
  11. I turned on the radio too. The plastic is still on the screen and radio face.
  12. My instrument panel, ready to boot up.
  13. June 7, 2015. First time on!
  14. The panel is in the plane and being wired
  15. Here is my panel as of Feb. 7. I painted it past week and installed the switches, breakers, etc. today. I need to order the G3X Touch and GTR-200 com...
  16. (Nov. 15, 2014) I spent the day at in the machine shop where I work.  
 
The opening for the PFD is being cut out with a milling machine.
  17. Using a hole punch to make the opening for an eyeball vent.
  18. The left and right aluminum inserts are finished.
  19. The last thing today was to mill out the openings for the avionics stack. 
 
I still need to clean up the edges, make the corresponding holes in the...
  20. This is a CAD drawing I made for my panel. It was helpful to confirm the fit, positions and give the XY coordinates. You might notice I didn't draw...
  21. Here is rough drawing of my instrument panel that I made with Paintbrush. 
 
I am going to install a G3X Touch system, GTR-200 Com radio, GTX-23...
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