Aircraft Electronics Association – Experimental Avionics Class Day 2

The second day was excellent. We learned practices for system design starting with our mission, equipment that will support the mission, how we should design and place it within the cockpit, etc. We also went over the different communication methods like RS232, ARINC, and CANBUS. CANBUS is primarily what the G3X system will use so it was good to learn some of the basics of that. We then learned how to wire the CANBUS together with window splicing. I finished the harness today but I wasn’t super happy with my connection to the GDU and the GMU. I didn’t terminate them all to the same length and it caused pillowing in the harness. Luckily I got it some what ironed out on the connection to the G5 and the GSU so those looked much better. All in all I was happy with the class. Tomorrow should be fairly short and then I can drive back. I am guessing the Garmin rep will show up tomorrow as he was supposed to show up today and didn’t.