---------------------------------------------------------- AeroElectric-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Fri 05/20/11: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:55 AM - Re: Board Soldering: Overheating and Cleaning? (messydeer) 2. 10:57 AM - Looking for a smaller 5amp switch breaker (plevyakh) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:55:09 AM PST US Subject: AeroElectric-List: Re: Board Soldering: Overheating and Cleaning? From: "messydeer" Yesterday I soldered the wires to the transponder board leaving them about 6" long, which I soldered to a female dsub 15. Also made up the mating male dsub. At first I tinned the board and wire ends then came back with the iron with a minimal bead of solder on the tip. It took only a couple seconds to solder them. I found it was difficult coming back to put more solder after this initial soldering to make a nice little mound over the wire. I found it worked better for me to put that extra solder on first, during the board tinning, so I wouldn't have to come back a second time. I scrubbed the contacts afterwards with a toothbrush and rubbing alcohol. It's not super pretty, but I'm happy with how it went. Grounding I also needed to run grounds from the transponder to the encoder on the EFIS and to the common ground buss. My solder cups aren't big enough to put more than one wire in. Instead of splicing the wires together, I recalled that Bob had jumped a bunch of dsub solder cups together by placing a section of wire between them and soldering it all together. I did that for 3 of the cups and connected ground wires from the transponder and encoder to this. I wanted a 20 awg ground from the encoder, but only had one spare 24 awg wire left over in the cable. I used a 22 awg along with this 24 awg wire for this. Diagram below. -------- Dan Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=340455#340455 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/transponder_efis_ground_schematic_387.jpg ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 10:57:45 AM PST US Subject: AeroElectric-List: Looking for a smaller 5amp switch breaker From: "plevyakh" Folks, I'm using Bob's Low Cost Ground Power Jack for your airplane architecture. It calls out a Tyco W31X2M1G5 5 amp switch breaker for the Ground Power circuit. I was hoping to include this switch breaker in my row of switches....but I have a depth clearance issue. The switch breaker is quite a bit more DEEP (2 1/8") than a standard S700 Carling series switch (1 3/16"), so it's hitting a fuselage cross cage tube before I can get my panel in place. Is anyone aware of another 5amp switch breaker with similar profile to the S700 series switch that I could swap in place of the Tyco? I could move the switch breaker to another location up on the far right side of the panel where my two alternator breakers are....but I'd like to keep the switches together if I can. Thanks for any ideas. Howard -------- Howard Plevyak GlaStar / North Bend, Ohio hplevyak@mac.com Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=340471#340471 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message aeroelectric-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/AeroElectric-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/aeroelectric-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/aeroelectric-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.