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.

Along with the shielded 3-conductor wire for the ELT, I received the wire for the wing and tail lights.  I’m going with the Aveo Engineering AveoMaxx 6-in-1 lights.  I bought color coded wire to match the AveoMaxx wire colors (except for 18AWG orange which I couldn’t find).  I strung most of the wires to just forward of the spar.  I can’t run them all the way forward just yet since the forward top skin is on while fitting the cowl.  The remainder of the wire is coiled up in the tail and wing root area.

I finished up the ground wire with the exception of the bit of 14AWG from under the seat up to the firewall.  I’ve got 18AWG ground wires going to each of the two wing tips and the tail.  These are tied together with the 14AWG that will ground at the firewall.  This saves me having to run all three ground wires all the way forward.  I’ve done the exact same connection for the strobe and nav power wires from the VP-X.

I got an order from Aircraft Spruce today with some 14AWG black wire for the ground wire that ties the tail and wing wires together and runs up to the firewall.

The adhesive zip-tie base that attached the end of the tailcone conduit had fallen off, so scuffed everything up and used some E6000 adhesive to anchor the base to the side wall.  There is no way this is coming off now.