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Fellow Builders/Flyers.I am placing an order with Spruce and wanted to know
how much of the 22GA wire that most builders ordered?
I would like to at least get a ballpark as to how much I might need figuring
runs back to the Empennage for Electric Trim and Rudder Tail Light. Runs to
wings for capacitive fuel senders, aileron trim, auto pilot, and runs for
the nav lights, pitot heat, panel?!?!?. As soon as my copy of AeroElectric
Connection gets here I will have some better idea, I wanted to know if 300'
is enough or should I go higher?
Also, any input or advice on multiple gauge wires that I may not have
thought of would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Scott & Jenni Shook
RV-7A N696JS
Working on Wings - QB Fuse ordered today!!!
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| Subject: | Question about wire |
Question about wireHi Scott,
Use AWG22 for most all of your avionics and sensor wire interconnects. I
would also get AWG18, AWG16, AWG14 and a little bit of AWG20. Get plenty of
AWG18 and plenty AWG22 as they will be the most prevalent. The electric
trim takes shielded multi-conductor wire, as do the audio components (use 3
conductor shielded wire for both headset & mic jacks). Depending on the
rest of your panel goodies there are a lot of variable. For example some
pitot tubes come with wire, but others need the AWG14. Some landing lights
like HID's only need AWG20, whilst 100W halogens will need at least AWG16.
The Autopilot is best just to buy the "servo wire" that is pre-bundled
because it needs 5 or 6 AWG22 wires and 2 AWG20 wires. Nav lights can vary
depending on whether they are LED or Incandescent.
I know that's not a lot of help, but honestly wire is cheap so just buy a
bunch of it..you'll most likely need more than 300' for the whole airplane,
especially in combined sizes. Heck if you're wiring yoru AP from scratch, a
typical AP servo run of 18' (x 7 wires) uses up 125' right there!
Hope that helps...clear as mud right!
Cheers,
Stein.
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[mailto:owner-rv7-list-server@matronics.com]On Behalf Of Scott R. Shook
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 4:12 PM
To: rv7-list@matronics.com
Subject: RV7-List: Question about wire
Fellow Builders/FlyersI am placing an order with Spruce and wanted to
know how much of the 22GA wire that most builders ordered?
I would like to at least get a ballpark as to how much I might need
figuring runs back to the Empennage for Electric Trim and Rudder Tail Light.
Runs to wings for capacitive fuel senders, aileron trim, auto pilot, and
runs for the nav lights, pitot heat, panel?!?!?. As soon as my copy of
AeroElectric Connection gets here I will have some better idea, I wanted to
know if 300 is enough or should I go higher?
Also, any input or advice on multiple gauge wires that I may not have
thought of would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Scott & Jenni Shook
RV-7A N696JS
Working on Wings QB Fuse ordered today!!!
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