Panel wiring

I haven’t been able to do any ‘real’ work on MYRO today but I posted my wiring scheme on the BMAA forum in the hope of getting advice and guidance from people like Dave Smith who are more expert in these things than me. Here’s the diagram I posted.

I think everything is OK but we’ll see, hopefully. I just tested the master switch neon and I’m glad to say it worked beautifully, lighting up with a nice red colour as soon as I turned the master switch on. Oh, and yes, it did go off when I turned the switch off 😆

In fact I’ve just returned to add that actually I’ve had a very productive evening after all. Whenever I see insulating tape on an electrical connection I know that it’s covering a bodge and usually the neater the tape, the bigger the bodge it covers 🙂

That hasn’t quite been the case with MYME’s old wiring but there was certainly plenty of tape over the EGT and CHT connections and it covered more than a few bodges. If you don’t have a good quality, well made connection, you can’t expect the gauge it connects to work reliably, not in the long term anyway. So I did a few over the weekend and I knew that there were several more needing attention. And that’s what I got done this evening. One or two were very poor and the connectors themselves actually snapped when I separated them. Luckily the new dual EGT gauge came with a short length of connecting cable with connectors on each end and I was able to use those to do the necessary repairs, by cutting them off close to the connector, soldering the connector to the wire in question and then covering the joint with heat shrink that I’d previously placed on the cut wire.

Lovely job – I’m very pleased with the results 😉