alpinelakespilot2000
Well Known Member
Quick question that will say a lot about what I don't know about electricity. If anyone would be willing to humor me, I'd appreciate it...
I'm generally following Bob Nuckoll's recommendations for wiring. I'm planning to use fuses to protect most everything. The fuse blocks will be located right under and behind the passenger side of the panel and accessible by a pull-down tray. However, I don't generally plan to mess with them in flight. For those items that I do want to be able to disable in flight (flaps, boost pump, autopilot, and perhaps alt. field), I intend to use a few circuit breakers.
One of the advantages of going the Nuckolls route it seems, is that the fuse blocks also serve as the bus bars. However, if I'm going to use breakers on at least those four circuits that I mention, it seems like I'd have to create another bus bar or two.
To avoid having to do this, is there any reason I couldn't have each of these four items draw power through the fuseblock (with an appropriate fuse) and then run it to the circuit breaker that I intend to put right by the switch for the item that I want to be able to take offline? This would add one more connection in a circuit with a corresponding failure point and greater resistance, but would it pose a significant problem in my intended application? It seems like this would be a really clean installation otherwise.
Alternatively, is it easier just to add another bus bar (or two) over on the pilot side?
Again, I have a lot to learn here, so please be nice in your responses
.
Thanks.
I'm generally following Bob Nuckoll's recommendations for wiring. I'm planning to use fuses to protect most everything. The fuse blocks will be located right under and behind the passenger side of the panel and accessible by a pull-down tray. However, I don't generally plan to mess with them in flight. For those items that I do want to be able to disable in flight (flaps, boost pump, autopilot, and perhaps alt. field), I intend to use a few circuit breakers.
One of the advantages of going the Nuckolls route it seems, is that the fuse blocks also serve as the bus bars. However, if I'm going to use breakers on at least those four circuits that I mention, it seems like I'd have to create another bus bar or two.
To avoid having to do this, is there any reason I couldn't have each of these four items draw power through the fuseblock (with an appropriate fuse) and then run it to the circuit breaker that I intend to put right by the switch for the item that I want to be able to take offline? This would add one more connection in a circuit with a corresponding failure point and greater resistance, but would it pose a significant problem in my intended application? It seems like this would be a really clean installation otherwise.
Alternatively, is it easier just to add another bus bar (or two) over on the pilot side?
Again, I have a lot to learn here, so please be nice in your responses
Thanks.
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