Rick6a
Well Known Member
I want to prewire the wings so that when the times comes to mate them to the fuselage all I'll have to do it make a few electrical connections at the wing root. This plan also includes a disconnect for the RG58 coax run to a Bob Archer wingtip VOR antenna.
This is my question: Is it acceptable to drill a hole through the inboard wing rib to accept a connector as shown...a type which is used to connect two coax cables together....thus in this application essentially becoming a "bulkhead" connector? Certainly, it is better to have a continous, unbroken run to the radio if possible but if coax performance and VOR reception is not degraded in any MEANINGFUL way, for the sake of convenience I would prefer to go this route. Thoughts?
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This is my question: Is it acceptable to drill a hole through the inboard wing rib to accept a connector as shown...a type which is used to connect two coax cables together....thus in this application essentially becoming a "bulkhead" connector? Certainly, it is better to have a continous, unbroken run to the radio if possible but if coax performance and VOR reception is not degraded in any MEANINGFUL way, for the sake of convenience I would prefer to go this route. Thoughts?
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