I received an order from Aircraft Spruce today with some three conductor shielded wire, so I attached it to the female mini din connector. This is really a stupid connector to use. The solder cups are way too small even for 24AWG wire, but I eventually got everything soldered together and used some shrink tubing to stabilize the wires. The connector is then filled with E6000 to further stabilize the wires and the sleeve is slipped over it. The other issue with this connector is that it doesn’t positively lock together, so it can vibrate loose. ACK’s instruction manual says to use some tape to keep the two halves together which is a little cheesy. The extra wire coming out of the connector is used during installation to monitor the signal received from the GPS.
I then ran the shielded wire up to the front of the cabin. I still need to secure the wires in this area, but that will have to wait until I rivet this shelf in place.
