2006 March (529kB) - Pacific Soaring Council

through the foot plate (already glasses in) required
the use of coat hanger wire and plenty of tape to
hour and to 1.5second duration maximum. I Hope
this helps with your installation, and good luck!
Parcel shelf hard mounts before reinforcement
The unit prior to painting showing tapped base
Assembled unit with antenna and bracket
attach the connector to the hanger wire and use this
to feed the cable through the extraordinarily small
and awkward space near the rudder pedals so the
cable could be run up the panel and canopy support
arm in the nose up the instrument panel itself. RJ11
connectors are small and brittle and so need plenty
of tape to protect them when being pulled through
an awkward confined space. Making space for the
coax cable to go underneath the antenna and plate
and up into the ELT itself required some spacers
attached to the base plate to raise the plate enough
(see Fig 7-8) Drilling through the gear box for the
cable was not an option as there was no clearance
from the box to the gear and the risk of fouling the
gear mechanism itself was too high. I key part of
the installation is the use of an elbow adaptor for
the antenna BNC cable – without this the unit would
never have fit in the space available.
Cramped space for the cable into the nose
Finally, the installed unit is shown.. Test the unit
before your final installation by monitoring 121.5
while turning on briefly. Transmitter tests on the
ground are restricted to the first 5 minutes of each
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