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1. 09:44 PM - Installing Gary's Eyebrow (Jim Hall)
2. 10:47 PM - Re: Installing Gary's Eyebrow (TeamGrumman@AOL.COM)
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| Subject: | Installing Gary's Eyebrow |
I'm going to get around to installing Gary's Eyebrown in my Cheetah "real
soon now". I have a couple of questions.
1. I've made a sheet metal box of my own design to replace the cheesy
plastic thing on the left side of the cockpit. My box splits into a back
piece which all the electrical stuff mounts to and a front piece (with the
placard about spinning and stuff) which is attached to the back piece with
tiny sheet metal screws. It will have three circuit breakers, a 5 A for the
ultravision lights under the eyebrow, a 1 A for the new map light, and
another 1 A for a noise cancelling headset power outlet. The question: How
should I mount the box to the honeycomb? I don't want to drill, and I don't
want to glue the box on so I can't get it off. I need access to the back of
the back piece to attach or remove the light. I'm thinking click bond
studs, which may be way over kill. Other suggestions?
2. Using Gary's wiring diagram, I'm considering running the map light off
of 51LA2 and putting a switch (also connected to 51LA2) to turn the dome
light on with 5LA5. That puts the map light and new breaker in series with
the 5 A fuse mounted on the battery box. Is this a big no no? (two failure
points, but only for non essential lights, still...) Maybe I need to run a
new wire from the bus to run the light through the breaker, and just use
51LA2 and 5LA5 for the dome light alone. I have to run a new wire to the
bus for the ultravisions anyway so I could just create a mini bus inside my
box for the three new breakers. Any suggestions? Comments?
3. I hate the cheesy red lights on the two side panels and on the standard
eyebrow and plan to dump them and just keep the compass light. I'm guessing
that 51LB6 is the left side light which will be eliminated and that 51LB4
goes to both the compass light and the right side panel light. Is that
correct?
Thanks for any suggestions,
Jim Hall
N9744U (STILL with the crummy factory eyebrow.)
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| Subject: | Re: Installing Gary's Eyebrow |
Jim, you're making it way too complicated. But, I guess to each his own.
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