I haven’t been doing a lot of status posting on the Rocket project because, frankly I’ve been busy building! Most of what I have been doing is building up interior panels, storage bins, and starting wiring - its so much easier to do that stuff before you start installing canopy rails, frames, and canopies! And that goes for panel and avionics wiring as well - so the past few weeks I have been wiring up the panel itself - and this week saw power on the panel-mounted avionics for the first time. The Garmin CAN bus starts out with the pitch servo in back, winds its way forward through a couple of boxes, goes into the panel, then comes back out of the panel to a couple of more boxes - and ends at the Magnetometer in the wingtip. In order to get the panel boxes to talk on the bus, I had to stick CAN terminators on the stub ends of the panel harness - and the result is cool! I can tune the radios from the GDU, and the GDU uses the AHARS data from the G5 - all like its supposed to work! Of course, most functionality has to wait until we get all the airframe boxes connected - but its always fun to light things up.
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And they view from behind - you can tell I like lacing cord….. (the blue tie wraps are temporary and will be gone when the panel harness gets connected to the airframe harness….which is in work!
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And they view from behind - you can tell I like lacing cord….. (the blue tie wraps are temporary and will be gone when the panel harness gets connected to the airframe harness….which is in work!
![3541D4E2-EB25-466A-83E3-62B7529A0698.jpeg 3541D4E2-EB25-466A-83E3-62B7529A0698.jpeg](https://vansairforce.net/data/attachments/45/45157-57305dc2afac15be35fefe87123df6c7.jpg)