I think this blog too so long to post because subconsiously I was reluctant to write about our failure. Well we havent failed yet but we are taking a long time to suceed. The Garmin and Autopilot projects that we thought would go smooth ofcourse did not. To be fair Christine is doing a great job with the autopilot and I am kinda holding her back.

The plan was to run all the wires through the pedistal guard. But once I drilled the hole, I realized that the wire connector of the transducer was too large and long to fit in my nice hole, so I made it bigger, and bigger. It eventually fit but once I connect the two plugs of the transducer, the whole connection aparatus wont fit through my huge hole. I decided to stop drilling and the wire will just have to hang out of the pedistal guard somewhat.

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Then comes drilling a hole into the cockpit floor to run the wires through. This was even more scary after my previous hole failure. Well wouldnt you know after drilling a hole almost the size of the rubber foot, the transducer wire still wont fit through it. So I stopped early this time. Should I continue to make the hole bigger, knowing that I need to make the hole larger than needed so that we can epoxy properly? Or should I cut the wire and try to resplice it. Both options seem doomed.



In this pic, we stopped drilling and epoxied it up with the intention of cutting the wire and feeding it through. I think cutting the wire is our only option, otherwise we have to make this hole about a quarter inch bigger, if thats even possible.

What a mess...

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