I approached my first bit of
wiring on the elevator trim servo. Most
cases in aviation you don’t solder terminals or wire joints.. Where possible you try to use crimp fittings because
they handle vibration better. On the
trim servo though it is difficult to work with crimp fittings since it fits
into such a small interior space. Also
the wires are really small (#26) so many
people solder them. I used multiple
layers of heat Shrink to dampen the vibration.
I also chose to run the wire through the existing manual trim cable hole
on the horizontal stab since I am not going to be using manual trim. I did however drill an additional hole in the
elevator as you can see because the servo actuator moves in and out of the
existing hole. Basically I think I got
a pretty elegant solution here and of course it will last 20 years.. ;-) I
will be using a D-Sub connector on the top of the aft deck to connect this to
the line that I have yet to run through the fuse.
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