I spoke with Dynon this morning and they were already aware of the reverse trim issue. \u00a0The fix will require software updates to both the Dynon SkyView and the VP-X, but those aren’t out yet. \u00a0It’s not blocking anything for me right now, so I’ll just wait for the updates.<\/p>\n
I moved ahead and finished the power and ground wires for the seat heaters. \u00a0I *think* this will be the last ground wire that attaches to the firewall ground block.<\/p>\n
Next up, I started wiring the interior lights. \u00a0I had been planning on wiring the cabin lights (in the roll bar support channel) directly to the battery bus so that I can turn them on without turning on the master switch. \u00a0I originally ordered a linear dimmer module from Perihelion Design<\/a>. \u00a0This has the nice feature that when the knob is turned off, the dimmer draws absolutely no power. \u00a0A while back though, I decided to switch to a PWM dimmer from pilotlights.net<\/a>. \u00a0The dimmer provides a much smoother and more linear brightness ramp, but unfortunately, it draws between 6 and 13 mA even when the output is open. \u00a0At 13 mA, that would completely drain my battery in ~54 days, but it would drain enough power to affect starting in quite a bit less time. \u00a0I don’t really see a way around this since the dimmer has to be connected prior to the switch that routes power to either the white or green cabin lights, so there’s no way to shut off power to the dimmer if it’s wired directly to the battery bus. \u00a0I’ve decided to just move the cabin lights to the interior lights circuit on the VP-X. \u00a0This will eliminate the current drain, but will unfortunately mean I will have to turn on the master switch to turn on the cabin lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I spoke with Dynon this morning and they were already aware of the reverse trim issue. \u00a0The fix will require software updates to both the Dynon SkyView and the VP-X, but those aren’t out yet. \u00a0It’s not blocking anything for me right now, so I’ll just wait for the updates. I moved ahead and finished … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}