Would you install lights?

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:56:57 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Uli" wrote

i'd also keep my options.

if you dont know yet what you might install a couple years later, you
might
consider using some sort of cable duct instead. so you can easily install
or change any wiring (just for lights, or lights and strobes...) later.

Good choice, but if there will be wiring at a later point anyway, one that
would end up with a bit of extra weight..

Probably not enough to count for much, and it does make future changes much
easier. Very possibly the best way to go.

I'm with Uli.
my 25 year old aircraft has 25 year old wiring in the wings "just in
case"
If I ever wanted to use it it would need replacing.
a light weight straight run cable duct with a loop of light builders
twine from end to end would have been a better option.

lacing the wiring and the pitot tubing to every rib just hasnt proven
to be the best option.(it took 2 months to replace the pitot tubing)

Stealth Pilot

Stealth Pilot wrote:

If I ever wanted to use it it would need replacing.
a light weight straight run cable duct with a loop of light builders
twine from end to end would have been a better option.

lacing the wiring and the pitot tubing to every rib just hasnt proven
to be the best option.(it took 2 months to replace the pitot tubing)

Stealth Pilot

For light weight, go with "wiring loom". It's cheap, extremely light,
and designed to surround and protect wiring. Running wires down it
blind is not easy. The wire ends want to catch on the ribs. Solve that
by screwing on a small wire-nut (or make sure you have the twine, as
Stealth suggests).

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:43:01 -0400, Ernest Christley
wrote:

Stealth Pilot wrote:

If I ever wanted to use it it would need replacing.
a light weight straight run cable duct with a loop of light builders
twine from end to end would have been a better option.

lacing the wiring and the pitot tubing to every rib just hasnt proven
to be the best option.(it took 2 months to replace the pitot tubing)


For light weight, go with "wiring loom". It's cheap, extremely light,
and designed to surround and protect wiring. Running wires down it
blind is not easy. The wire ends want to catch on the ribs. Solve that
by screwing on a small wire-nut (or make sure you have the twine, as
Stealth suggests).

Another option I read about, years ago, was to take a piece of mylar and roll it
into a tube. Slide it into the wing, and it'll uncoil as far as it can for the
largest possible cableway for later use.

Ron Wanttaja