{"id":1485,"date":"2013-11-06T14:54:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2013-12-23T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:07:37","slug":"13-99-navigationstrobe-wing-root-connectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/13-99-navigationstrobe-wing-root-connectors\/","title":{"rendered":"13.5.1 Navigation\/Strobe Wing Root Connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"37\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 14 of 67 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/13-electrical-instrumentation\/\">13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Originally, I was going to use basic Molex connectors for the navigation and strobe light connections at the interface between the wing and strake. Then I found some weatherproof AMP connectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AT-Series.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1487\" alt=\"AT-Series\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AT-Series-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The wingtip light assembly has four wires (Ground, Navigation Light Power, Strobe Light Power and Sync) so I selected a 4-position connector.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the fuselage side of the connection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-06-IMG_20131106_095231_784.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1486\" alt=\"2013-11-06 IMG_20131106_095231_784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-06-IMG_20131106_095231_784-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The red wire is the &#8220;sync&#8221; wire. This allows the strobe on the left to be synchronized with the strobe on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Up until this point, I was labeling the wires with plain english (Oil Pressure, Starter, 24v, etc.). But after considering the number of labels and the cost of the heat shrink tubing, I decided that I should adopt the modified version of aircraft wire labeling standard. Hence the somewhat cryptic &#8220;L1-4B-20&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"37\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 14 of 67 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/13-electrical-instrumentation\/\">13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Originally, I was going to use basic Molex connectors for the navigation and strobe light connections at the interface between the wing and strake. Then I found some weatherproof AMP connectors. The wingtip light assembly has four wires (Ground, Navigation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/13-99-navigationstrobe-wing-root-connectors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"series":[37],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","series-13-electrical-instrumentation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}