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Old 06-18-2006, 01:47 PM
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I would like to run conduit thought my 9A for all of my lighting requirements.Eg. Tail and wings and lights. Is there a special conduit that I should be using or do I just pick it up from my electrical supplier in town.
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Old 06-18-2006, 01:56 PM
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Russel,
If you do a search in the forums on "wing conduit" you will get several hits. Many of those threads include good pics as well. I purchased mine from Van's and it installed easily. Others have used PVC.
I hope this helps.
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Old 06-18-2006, 02:04 PM
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Russel -

I'm going with the standard plastic corrogated conduit from Van's. It's light, keeps the wires well bundled, and not expensive
The downsides are - I hear it's a little difficult to get into the rib holes, and may a little small if you are running a lot of wires

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Old 06-18-2006, 02:30 PM
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Flexible black PVC is nice because it's easy to feed wires through. Much easier than the Vans tubing.

For the tail, I went sans conduit - because access is easy and the wiring run is small.
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Old 06-18-2006, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by kevinh
Flexible black PVC is nice because it's easy to feed wires through. Much easier than the Vans tubing.

For the tail, I went sans conduit - because access is easy and the wiring run is small.
I used Van's conduit in my wings. If I had it to do over, I would not have used it. I was a big pain.
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Old 06-18-2006, 07:02 PM
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In my wings I used thin walled PVC from Home Depot. Its very light easy to install and feed wires through. To the tail since I only had 4 wires I just wire tied it along the J stringers. The aft portion of the fuselage is fairly easy to crawl inside at any time.

http://www.jeffsrv-7a.com/WINGS/05-07-30.htm

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Old 06-19-2006, 07:41 AM
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I have a bunch of Van's conduit, if someone wants to buy it.
That looks good Jeff.
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Old 06-19-2006, 01:16 PM
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I have to say that I had no trouble with installing the Vans conduit in the left wing. Haven't built the right wing yet...
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Old 06-19-2006, 01:24 PM
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I did exactly as Jeff did, except mine came from Menards. It's super light, and the wires will easily slide through. I think I paid $7.99 for 50'.

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