Avionics Status Update

I don't have much to say here other than we can see the light at the end of the tunnel! I debated early on having the wiring harness made, but I am very glad to have done this one myself. There is a level of understanding of how the bytes are flowing over the lines that one would not get if someone else were to have wired and configured the system. 

Everything in green is now complete with only a couple of additional wires to terminate (colored in orange).

Wiring

I have been a bit busy lately not posting, but I have been building! For the past couple of weeks I have been really straightening out my electrical system. I spend a lot of time in CAD software at work and for me, it made a lot of sense to build out my electrical system in an actual schematic editor. While Eagle is more geared around building PCBs, it's schematic editor is pretty straight forward. It is also free to use, so I figured it would be a good platform to build out a GARMIN parts library so other people can benefit for the hours spent building out the parts. If you are looking for Eagle it is now part of Autodesk. You can get it here:

https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/overview

Over the next couple of weeks I plan to get the rest of my wiring system into Eagle. I have most of it in a drawing right now, but I am working on cleaning it up. I am at the point where I just made the connections, as I build the wiring harnesses themselves, I have been putting in the wire colors into the schematic and marking them off as done.

If you want access to my EAA Avionics library I am keeping it here: https://github.com/karrelsj/eaa

If you want access to my actual schematic: https://github.com/karrelsj/N5412K