24 June 06 - Panel is complete

As you can see from this picture, the center top panel which contains the warning lights had too many holes - we've reduced the number of redundant lights somewhat, and as a result, needed to get another center panel from Fabian down at Affordable Panels. Now that it's in, it's time to cut it, punch the holes in, paint it, and slap the label on there. That was today's project, and now the panel is done! Everything has power . . . about the only thing that it doesn't have, at this point, is the static lines that will run into the EFIS, altimeter, VSI, etc etc.

Woo hoo! There it is.

You may also notice that there is no way to test the panel warning lights that are above the GPS - we decided that this was not necessary for two reasons:

• First, they are LEDs, so odds are they are going to last longer than the airframe . . . or certainly longer than the engine.
• Also, all of them will come on during the course of a normal startup sequence of the airplane: low oil pressure will come on anytime the master switch is on when the engine is not running, the low volt will come on when the alternator is not running (it's possible to disable it with the wiring diagram we have, so that can be part of the checklist if that's a good idea . . . still contemplating), and the starter engaged light will come on, um, when the starter is engaged. Obviously, this has to happen when you're starting the plane.

Anyway, I guess we'll see how that all works out.

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