Log 74 - Electrical Troublshooting (part 2+)

Thursday, Friday and today, another 10 hrs on electrical. Photos have helped since its so difficult to see wires while traversing under the instrument panel. I've got better at it. It can be very difficult to tackle wiring, chasing and trying to focus on just one issue at a time, also wondering which end of the wires to start at. I'm getting a little better. The best ideas are while waking up the next mornings before getting out of bed, recalling another wire I had seen and thinking its part of a solution. It's all working. Tonight was the first time I've had the transponder pick up the altitude from the Dynon D180 flight deck encoder. At the same time, I had the VOR started and it was asking for a GPS to get data from. (Note, to make a toggle for the remote GPS). It will be saved for later. Some photos starting here in the album. It was snowing outside, the hangar was cold, I had the canopies closed with a lamp and it was fairly warm inside.

I had some wiring help previously and there was a few small mistakes. I'm learning what needs to be connnected to the Dynon and how. I found a small wire bus used to convert a few wire colors and able to trace a few back to their sources. Had the transponder out and finally found wire pin #9 which should go to Pin #13 on the dynon. It worked. Pin #5 on the SL30 VOR goes to the remote update plug which goes to Pin 22 on the dynon. It goes here because it needs to be unplugged for dynon updates, and, to unplug while plugging a remote GPS. It may not need a toggle and I must find this out from Dynon, or test.