I'm curious. Where, on the plans, did you see that the OAT goes in the left wing?The OAT is in the left wing . . .
I'm curious. Where, on the plans, did you see that the OAT goes in the left wing?
I agree with you that's where it "should" go, but I did spend a LOT of time trying to find ANY mention of the OAT in the plans and I didn't find any, so I can understand why someone would be confused. There's no mention of it in the WH-00125 main wiring harness, the WH00011 wing wiring harnesses of either wing, or anywhere on the build drawings. A search of the entire folder of .pdf plans finds nothing referring to the OAT.
If I missed it I'd love to know where so I can do a better search next time!
I did finally confirm with SteinAir that the left wing near the wing root is the "normal" location, but based on the plans I can see why anyone would be confused.
Thanks!I don?t have my plans here, but Jake answered. It plugs into the left wing wiring, as I recall. Feeds temp. data to the G3X and G5.
I remember now that I did put a connector at the wing root for the OAT wiring. It made it easier to install it while the wings were still in the cradle, rather than fishing the wire through the wings and fuselage after the wings were mounted.
What kind of connector did you use? The shield is hefty on the Garmin probe and I wasn?t sure if the shield needed a pin to match the gauge of the wire. (Something to do with lightning strike protection I think)
just to go back to the OP's original question, I checked my right wing after flying today and there's no hole near the inboard inspection panel. Since the wing bottom skins seem to be mirror images, maybe you got a left wing bottom skin (which has the OAT mounting hole) by mistake (or maybe you switched them yourself The hole is 3/8" dia
Good to know. Thanks.I originally put a micro molex, reluctantly, because I hate them. When I lost OAT after about 50 hours, I replaced the micro molex with d-subs for each wire, then heat shrink to hold them together. After ~70 more hours, still working.
Good to know. Thanks.I originally put a micro molex, reluctantly, because I hate them. When I lost OAT after about 50 hours, I replaced the micro molex with d-subs for each wire, then heat shrink to hold them together. After ~70 more hours, still working.
Jake - I'm an idiot. Its the left wing. Its the OAT hole. Man, I'm losing it. In the 90% - 90% phase and everything is a blur. Thanks for playing.
The path of the wiring through the wing root is quite tortuous. Not sure it would be possible the properly route it with the wing attached. Certainly limited access through the space between the fuselage and the wing root. Of course, you might just run the wires through the lightening holes . . .