The SkyView DB37 connector comes with a long USB cable with a type A female end on it. The other end connects to pins 16-19 on the DB37 connector. This cable is kind of useless as the female end can’t be mounted to anything.
I extracted these pins from the DB37 connector so I can replace it with a more appropriate connector.
I picked up this 18″ USB 2.0 A M/F panel mount cable. I could have just connected this to the preinstalled SkyView USB cable, but it won’t have been extremely long and would have just ended up coiled up behind the panel. I clipped off the male end and crimped on some d-sub sockets.
I then reassembled the connector. I really wish Dynon had just installed this sort of cable in the first place.
Here you can see that the cable is long enough to reach anywhere near the SkyView screen. To confirm everything was working correctly, I upgraded the SkyView to 2.6 using the USB thumb drive plugged into this cable. I’ll install an identical cable on the other SkyView screen once I order it.
While I had my electrical tools out, I went ahead and soldered some lead wires to the controls that will be installed in the control stick grips.
Before I can install the controls into the stick for good, I wanted to put a couple of coats of tung oil on the grips.
