I needed a break from messing around with the baffle/plenum, it was wearing me down, so I decided to start getting things mounted in and behind the panel. My first order of business was cutting a clearance hole for my Garmin SL40 radio since it is too long to fit in the space provided. This design is silly to me...why Van's has the sub-panel so close to the panel is beyond me. Almost every builder has to hack the sub-panel up in some way to make the radios fit.
Here you can see, I have it in place to mark the location for the hole...
And after some cutting with the die grinder...we have a clearance hole for the comm.
A view from the backside
Placing the SkyView and GDU 375 in place so I can make layout plans for several electronic boxes that need to mount behind the panel.
And yes, as you can see, I still haven't removed my seats...I kind of like looking at 'em. ;) I need to get them out of there soon though before I do something to damage them.
I made sure I had nice flat surface (no bowing) on my panel support. I then reattached the support pieces (green primer) that I cut off earlier in the project. You can see one of them in the shot below. I had to strategically reposition these to get around my EFIS/GPS units.
The biggest electronic box I needed to mount behind the panel was my Vertical Power red box, so I tackled that first. I used a scrap piece of fuel tank baffle material to make a shelf. Worked good. Keep in mind, anything you mount has to be able to withstand +6/-3 G's.
More to come next week...my EMS module and the GDL39 module will be next. I will probably mount my remote second PS Engineering comm and the remote transponder behind the baggage compartment bulkhead.
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