RV-10 QB wing wiring

[bhoppe2]

My RV-10 QB wings came with bushings installed for wing wiring. This is per my plans and also what shows in the RV-14 plans. Many previous posts talk about installing conduit in the wings instead. I am wondering about people's thought regarding staying with the Van's bushings or trying to replace them with the 5/8" corrugated conduit that Van's sells. I could run a few extra wires through the existing bushings to the wingtips, just in case, as I saw in another posting. That may be lighter than the conduit. Removing the bushings and opening up the holes for conduit may be difficult. What do you think?

 

[rocketman1988]

Actually opening up the holes is not difficult at all with a unibit and drill extension, if you choose to do it. I ended up running conduit in bushings, the weight of the bushings was not even considered...

 

[rleffler]

It's a flip of a coin. Conduit makes it easier to pull wires later. The bushings are lighter, but will require some extra effort to pull wires. In either case, be sure to leave a pull string in the bundle.

I installed the 3/4" conduit that Vans sells.

 

[rocketman1988]

As for the pull string, I used 50lb test braided fishing line. If you wad a small piece of masking tape on the end of the string, you can suck it right through the conduit with a shop vac...