ELT jack

[dsm8]

Good Afternoon and Happy Easter:

I am in the process of fabricating the jack for the ACK 406 ELT and it has bee nearly 50 years sinece I helped my dad build a Heathkit TV and my soldering skills need help. Does the shielding on the wire, (pin 26) need to be grounded. Is it grounded using a solder sleeve and looping it aorund to the ground wire coming from the adjacent ground pin similar to the way Stein air demsonstrates it on one of hsi videos?
The shielded wire transmits signal form the GPS to the ELT. Some installations state it is optional.


Any advice would be grealty appreciated,

 

[Rallylancer122]

Figure 13 of the E-04 install manual shows the shield being grounded at the GPS, but not the DIN connector. Grounding shields at one end only is not uncommon.

To be honest, most of the noise comes from the engine, and more often then not when you need the ELT for real the engine won't be running.

Was checking out a guy in a RV12 last weekend who hadn't flown one in a while. We made some firm, but not at all hard landings. Taxied in and the ELT was going off. Got to talk to the US Air Force.

 

[dsm8]

Thank you so much, that is what Ithought. I purcahsed some solder sleeves to ground the shielding.