And then there was light

This post covers the installation of the Avionics that roughly spanned from March 2024 through October 2024.

Avionics really is split into 3 phases:

1. Running of wires and antennas throughout the Wings and Fuselage during their construction
2. Planning of the panel and the required avionics
3. Installation of Avionics into the paneland connecting them to all the wires and attennas from Step 1 above

For Step 1, Van’s (the kit manufacture) helped by providing all the wires and connectors. They outsourced this work to a company called Steinair in Minnesota. If you really want to go into the wormhole, check out what the Fuselage wiring harness looks like.

For Step 2, I reached out directly to Steinair to help plan my panel and I outsourced to them the fabrication of it and the wire harnesses that would connnect to the wires in Step 1.

For Step 3, I was on the hook for installation and deciding where each component that sits behind the panel would reside.

Here are the pics from working with Steinair on the panel and the want they sent as it was fabricated in Minnesota:

This arrived in March, and from there I was on the hook to make it all work together!

First power on, and as builders are famous for saying, “No smoke”!