I have often heard the question ?how do I connect the metal pitot tubing in the wing to the plastic pitot tubing in the fuselage (assuming you used metal in the wing ? some don?t, and that?s fine too!). A real easy way to do it is to go to your scrap clear plastic tubing drawer and look for a piece with an inside diameter that fits tightly over both the nylon and ?? metal tubing (they have the same OD). Wet it a little to make it slippery, push it on both sides, and add a couple of cable ties ? finished!
Here?s a shot of the disconnects we have going to the wings on our high-tech RV-3. If I had a simple airplane with nothing but lights out in the wings, I?d give strong consideration to just hard-wiring across the wing/fuselage interface. But given that we have numerous lights, aileron trim servos, roll A/P servos and antennas out there, in this case, I like the idea of disconnects ? made it far easier to wire up (there is only 1.75? of clearance between the wing and the fuse when the spars are joined). We used an ?AMP? CPC connector for lighting and Pitot heat, a BNC for the antenna, and a D-Sub for (on this side) the trim servo.
Paul
Here?s a shot of the disconnects we have going to the wings on our high-tech RV-3. If I had a simple airplane with nothing but lights out in the wings, I?d give strong consideration to just hard-wiring across the wing/fuselage interface. But given that we have numerous lights, aileron trim servos, roll A/P servos and antennas out there, in this case, I like the idea of disconnects ? made it far easier to wire up (there is only 1.75? of clearance between the wing and the fuse when the spars are joined). We used an ?AMP? CPC connector for lighting and Pitot heat, a BNC for the antenna, and a D-Sub for (on this side) the trim servo.
Paul
...) does not seem to specifiy them for metal tubing -
