Started Finished Hours
11/9/2004 103.3
Construction Log
Part Date Hours Log
11/8/04 1 Reviewed Wiring Harness Plans.
11/9/04 0.5 Inventoried Panel Instruments&Parts.
Panel/Wiring 11/9/04 1.5 Installed Switches, SCB's, Breakers in panel. Installed buss Bars. Fab'd F-7127D & Drilled to firewall.
11/10/04 2 Drilled Platenut Holes in Firewall & Doubler. Riveted Doubler & Platenuts to firewall. Installed master, starter relays. Drilled F-7127A-L,R to battery tray.
11/11/04 2 Drilled Holes in rear of batt tray. Deburred, dimpled, riveted Platenuts and angles to batt tray. Drilled bolt holes in firewall.
11/12/04 1.5 Routed wiring harness in fuse. Fab'd B4,5 wires.
11/13/04 4.5 Installed B4,5 wires to flap switch & subpanel. Fab'd B1. Installed wire harness on SCB's and Cb's. Installed Instruments in panel. Fab'd/Installed ground wires for engine gauges.
11/14/04 4.5 Installed Intercom to panel. Installed connector hood on harness. Routed pilot & copilot wires. Installed terminal strip to subpanel and attached wires from harness. Drilled holes for pilot/copilot jacks. Soldered wires to jacks & installed in A/C.
11/19/04 1.5 Installed 10A SCB for taxi light & installed jumpers. Fab'd/Installed power wires for engine gauges.
11/23/04 1 Fab'd Avionics rack rt, lt plates. Marked rt, lt rack angles for cutting.
11/24/04 2 Fab'd Rt, Lt rack angles. Fit, drilled avionics rack to panel. Cut panel fot transponder. Fit GPS/COM & Transponder.
11/25/04 3 Drilled & Installed platenut for Batt Ground. Installed Ammeter shunt on firewall. Installed Batt& wired batt. Made connetions to relays. Performed first electrical and intercom check. Fab'd, Routed, Connected Ammeter +,- wires.
11/26/04 0.5 Fab'd, routed, L,R fuel sender wires.
12/4/04 0.75 Drilled mapbox to #30. Drilled mapbox hinges & door.
12/5/04 1 Riveted map box halves together. Installed cam-lock in map box. Riveted hinge onto map door.
1/2/05 2 Drilled & cut panel for mapbox.
1/3/05 2.5 Cut subpanel for mapbox. Fab'd all panel angles and drilled to sub-panel.
1/13/05 2 Measured wire/cable lengths for GPS/COMM and XPDR.
1/14/05 3.5 Cut wires for GPS/COMM and XPDR. Labeled all wires and bundled harnesses. Attached ring terminals to wires.
1/15/05 1.25 Riveted sub panel angles to sub panel. Drilled COMM, GPS, XPDR antenna calbe holes in sub panel.
1/16/05 1 Cont'd wiring harness fab.
1/17/05 2.5 Crimped wires for GPS/COMM & XPDR. Inserted GPS/COMM pins into connectors. Installed connectors on rack and turned on GPS for first time!!!!
1/18/05 0.5 Installed pins on XPDR Connector.
1/20/05 2 Drilled wing ribs for conduit. Routed conduit, Pitot/AOA tubes and strobe wires.
1/23/05 6.5 Fab'd/Primed Strobe and ELT bracket. Installed Strobe bracket.
1/24/05 2 Installed ELT bracket. Connected flap wires. Drilled holes for wire routing below baggage and seat floors. Routed ELT and strobe wires in fuse.
1/25/05 0.5 Routed power wire for strobe power supply. Mounted ELT holder to bracket.
1/26/05 2 Attached strobe connectors to Power supply wire ends and wing tips. Attached 6 pin connectors to wing spar and fuse strobe/nav wires.
1/28/05 1.75 Routed tail nav/strobe wires. Connected pins to tail strobe connector. Wired strobe power supply to panel.
1/29/05 1.25 Removed panel. Marked & cut hole for EFIS/Panel plug.
2/2/05 1.5 Fab'd Bracket/Plug for EFIS. Drilled hole for flap switch.
2/4/05 1.75 Cut hole for EFIS. Mounted EFIS bracket in panel. Cut hole in panel for hour meter. Drilled hole in aft engine control bracket for cabin heat knob.
2/5/05 4.5 Riveted F-703B,C's to panel. Riveted mapbox to panel. Prepped, primed, and painted panel with flat black paint. Removed, filed, and re-installed map box door. Applied second coat of black paint. Finish did not turn out well.
2/6/05 5.25 Repainted panel with wrinke finish black paint. Finish turned out much better than flat black paint. Installed instruments in panel. Drilled hole in firewall for magneto and alternator wires. Continued routing wires. Wrapped wires that run down firewall in conduit.
2/13/05 3.75 Drilled holes for COMM&XPDR Antennas. Mounted both antennas. Routed XPDR Cable and attached XPDR wire harness to avionics rack. Spliced fuel pump wire. Routed more wires and attached wire ties.
2/18/05 1.75 Attached avionics rack to panel. Installed screws in instruments. Installed panel in fuselage. Attached CB/SCB's
2/19/05 4.5 Filed subpanel underneath mapbox. Attached instrument power and grounds. Installed Avionics in panel. Routed EFIS Wiring harness.
3/26/05 4.75 Wired MP gauge power and ground. Located and drilled hole for CHT/EGT remote switch. Wired MP sender and hooked to gauge. Attached ring terminals to CHT/EGT remote switch and wired to gauges. Mounted remote switch to panel. Attached MP sender to fuselage.
3/27/05 3.75 Installed CHT probes. Installed adel clamps for starter and alternator wires. Routed starter alternator and magneto wires. Separated shields from magneto wires and attached heat shrink and ring terminals to shields.
3/28/05 0.75 Installed plug in alternator and routed J2 wire to firewall. Removed ground jumper from ignition switch, as both magnetos are impulse coupling magneots. Attached P26 engine ground cable to firewall and engine case.
3/31/05 1.25 Installed barrel terminals on Mag P lead wires. Attached Wires to Mags. Fab'd 16 gauge wire for starter and installed ring terminals. Attached wire to starter and solenoid. Attached P17 starter cable to solenoid and tested "Start" voltage on cable.
4/1/05 3.25 Attached connector halves to encoder module and XPDR/GPS alt inputs. Wired encoder module to PWR/GND. Spliced serial output from EFIS to encoder module. Trouble shooting EFIS not powering up.
4/2/05 1.75 Charged A/C Battery and turned on EFIS. Updated EFIS SW to fix powerup bug.
4/23/05 2 Fab'd wires for Hobbs/Oil Light, Oil P, Fuel P, Tach, and routed in fuselage.
4/24/05 2 Attached oil P, T, Fuel P, Tach, Hobbs to instruments.
5/12/05 1.25 Installed EL Panel Lighting and dimmer.
5/20/05 1 Attached power and ground wires and terminals on all nav and landing lights.
Panel/Wiring 103.3