It has been a long time since the garage was cleaned out thoroughly, so I pulled the plane out into the driveway and gave everything a good once over.
After pulling the plane back in the garage, I started wiring up the starter switch. I installed all of the wires in the back of the switch, but haven’t hooked any of them up to anything. The two red wires will be hooked to the starter switch pin on the VP-X which is only enabled when the engine isn’t running. The black wire is the ground wire for the internal light. The white wire with the red stripe is the switched power wire to the starter contactor. The VP-X manual calls for a 18AWG wire for the starter, but the starter only pulls about 3.6A. Given how little time these wires are asked to carry that current, the temperature rise in a 22AWG wire is just fine, so that is what I used.
