Lightspeed install question

[AlexPeterson]

I took a piece of stainless sheet, drilled two holes (for the silicone tubes), and cut a slit to one edge. The firewall has a hole large enough for the connectors. The slit allows on to deform just enough to get the wire into the holes. Used high temp rtv and popped it on with a couple non-aluminum rivets. The silicone tubes were slit also.

[GaryK]

The Hall Effect is slightly different, a 9 pin connector to the sensor and 15 pin to the input connector on the brain box. I did not want that big hole in the firewall, simply cut off the 9 pin connector and crimped sub D pins. The Hall Effect only uses 6 pins

pin 1 Shield
pin 2&3 Channel A
pin 6&7 Channel B
pin 8 Shield

The 15 pin shouldn't be that big of a deal if your comfortable with reading the schematic.

Good Luck

Gary
N715AB

[flion]

And a pin extractor would save you having to crimp or solder/splice. I haven't got to that stage yet but the control cables for my autopilot servos came with one end not pinned into the connector yet but I had an extractor handy (I work with computers for a living, if you can call it that) just in case. I'm thinking you could ask Lightspeed for an unpinned connector and a pin diagram. You'd still want the extractor if you ever want to remove the cable, though. For electronic tool stuff like D-Sub pin extractors I usually go to Fry's Electronics or your local/online equivalent.

[GaryK]

Totally agree with the pin extractor..

Lightspeed likes to use solder connectors so the pin extraction tool will not work. All my Sub D connectors, male and female sub D pins, crimp tool, extractor, et. came from B&C. You can also purchase them from Stein or Terminal Town.

Gary