Yes, I am alive… I was laid up and unable to work on the airplane for several days, thanks to my lovely wife who works with sick people and sometimes brings her work home with her. Ahem. Anyway, I have been running a few wires here and there, which is both interesting and challenging – however, it unfortunately does not always lend itself to exciting and dynamic photographs for one's world-wide-web-log. But here are a few pictures nonetheless.
I soldered wire leads to a 5W, 5Ω resistor, then mummified it with heatshrink tubing per this method – the better to keep the resistor leads from breaking off thanks to vibration. I probably didn't really need to label it, but I wanted to see if my heatshrink label printer could do an omega symbol.
I used a clamp to affix the resistor to one of the subpanel ribs, and also bolted in a power diode. These components are part of the circuit that trickle-charges the aux battery.
I ran some wires to the bus master switches, which should soon provide me the ability to turn the various buses on and off. See the next post for an explanation of the red twist-tie looking things.
Here's another view of the festivities. I put in a few snap bushings here and there to allow wire bundles to be routed to various places.
