{"id":92,"date":"2009-05-24T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-05-24T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T18:50:28","slug":"wiring-up-the-fuel-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Wiring up the FUEL panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 2 years ago, I finished the main construction for the new FUEL panel in the simulator.\u00a0 Other things came up and I never got back to finishing the panel.\u00a0 As of today, it&#8217;s finally finished.<\/p>\n<p>The wiring needed to be done and I didn&#8217;t want to mickey mouse the process.\u00a0 I created a little 25 hole template that would allow me to cut the wiring to the right length for mounting into the DB25 connector I&#8217;d chosen for this panel.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2-pumNCcbEU<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When it&#8217;s installed and threaded up, it looks like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96\" title=\"fuel_wiring1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fuel_wiring1.jpg\" alt=\"Switches wired up and routed through the connector jig\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-96\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Switches wired up and routed through the connector jig<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It looks like a rats nest, but the alignment jig really makes life easy.\u00a0 Without it, there would be a ton of extra wire below the connector.<\/p>\n<p>To neaten it up, I use very small nylon wire ties on the individual switch bundles:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97\" title=\"fuel_wiring2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fuel_wiring2.jpg\" alt=\"Wire ties added\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wire ties added<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The last step and the one that took the longest was to attach all the crimp-on connectors for the female DB25 connector that was used and then attach the connector to the stand offs:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_98\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98\" title=\"fuel_wiring3_sm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fuel_wiring3_sm.jpg\" alt=\"DB25 connector attached\" width=\"365\" height=\"344\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-98\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DB25 connector attached<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short video showing the completed panel:<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C-iPRziWxjU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 2 years ago, I finished the main construction for the new FUEL panel in the simulator.\u00a0 Other things came up and I never got back to finishing the panel.\u00a0 As of today, it&#8217;s finally finished. The wiring needed to be done and I didn&#8217;t want to mickey mouse the process.\u00a0 I created a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}