When I upgraded from a 496 to the 696, I just cut off the 496 wires and used the same crimp on butt splices that I used for splicing other wires on the plane.
As long as you use a high quality, double crimp type butt connector (such as Amp brand) and a high quality crimper, you will have a very long lasting reliable connection.
BTW. Whereas the 496 required the external GPS antenna, unless you mount the 696 in the panel, you mostly likely don't need the external GPS antenna - just the XM weather antenna.
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Rick Aronow,
A&P
Flying 7A Slider;
RV-12 SOLD
Jacksonville, FL
Last edited by Rick_A : 09-22-2011 at 05:00 PM.
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