Ground Power

Ground Power

One thing that decided to add was a ground power plug for charging the battery, jump-starting the engine, and/or running the (all-electric) avionics on the ground (such as for testing). I bought the standard 3-prong style plug from Aircraft Spruce with the hinged cover, and glassed it into the nose of the fuselage in front […]

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Vertical Power VP-X Pro Installation and integration with Grand Rapids EFIS

Vertical Power VP-X Pro Installation and integration with Grand Rapids EFIS

I recently realized that I had short-shifted the installation of my VP-X electronic circuit breaker system in my previous posts about my winter panel upgrade. I’ll try to correct that here. As a reminder, I chose to replace my original circuit breaker installation because it brought a bunch of wires into my cabin and made […]

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New Backup Battery

New Backup Battery

So I’ve had a little bit of trouble with these Panasonic batteries not having quite enough guts for some of the panel testing I do. So I decided to try a larger capacity battery, in the same class, but this one is a 7.2 amp hour version. This should give us pretty good capacity in […]

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Sump Warning Light

Sump Warning Light

So, we’ve had this low level switch function in our sump tank for awhile. And it’s always sucked. We started out with the factory’s standard float switch wired to a lamp in the panel, but it would nuisance alarm at altitude and at high power/high angle of attack. I bought a VP03E to alleviate these problems, since […]

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Switches and Circuit Protection

Switches and Circuit Protection

Well, from a couple of years of pushing my starter button, I find that it’s starting to have fine spider web cracks radiate from around the button. I guess we push too hard. Here we’ve made a support out of angle AL that has been notched to let the button pass through while resting up […]

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Circuit Breaker Box

Circuit Breaker Box

Next we need to make a breaker box for our circuit breakers. We decided to get an engraved panel for the circuit from Frontpanel Express since Superior Panel exited the market. We also decided to mount our breakers off of the main instrument panel for a couple of reasons. First of all, if a breaker […]

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