Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Panel WIring

Chris came by today to begin work on wiring the panel. He checked out my progress and studied the large wiring diagram I had printed out. Next, we began developing a plan of attack and started separating the spool of wires laying in the cockpit into common groups. Depending on where the final connection would be, we divided the wires either right side or left. 

Then he started wiring the USB connectors in the panel. Since these were so close to the Truss, he decided to solder the connections leaving a few inches of wire where we will add in line connectors. This will allow for easy removal of the USB connector from the panel. 

We then turned to the many switches. We had to figure out just how to wire them in series so we could use one of the dimmers to control the brightness.