[simpits-tech] The Sabreliner awakens!

[Cris Harrison]

On 01/13/2014 07:21 PM, Matt Bailey wrote:
> Had some success last night with the Sabreliner's power system:
>
> http://sabrelinersim.com/powered/Center.jpg
>
> http://sabrelinersim.com/powered/annunciators_sm.jpg
>
> http://sabrelinersim.com/powered/sabreliner_ice_light.jpg
>
> I seem to have found the output side of some DC circuit in the cockpit,
> going back to the rest of the plane. My battery, electric master, and
> inverter switches have no effect, and a number of DC circuits seem to
> still not be getting power. Once I find the lead that would have gone
> back to the battery, I assume I will be able to power up everything
> else.....unless there is stuff that could ONLY run off the DC
> generators? Even if that's the case, isolating and applying power to
> the DC generator supply leads should cover all my power delivery.
>
> I "hotwired" the coil positive terminal of the inverter #1 relay to get
> the inverter on, which restored much (but not all) of my lighting...but
> I suspect most of my lighting issues are due to dead bulbs.
>
> What's odd is that despite tracking down every large wire that was cut
> at the back of the cockpit, I evidently still have not found the
> battery or DC generator leads. I am thinking/hoping that those thick
> heavy wires might have just fallen down behind the aft cockpit bulkhead
> (the wires were cut more or less flush with the back of the cockpit),
> which would be easy to connect once I pull the trim out of the cockpit.
>
> Some cool stuff: the engine master switches are still connected to
> relays in the back of the cockpit, I can hear them clicking when I flip
> the master switches. And whatever computer/circuit/device controls the
> master caution lights is still present and working: the lights come on
> with power, and go out when I press either one. Caution light test
> circuit is also good (that's how I got the pics with all the
> warning lights on). And the leading-edge ice lights can still be
> controlled from the exterior lighting panel on the pilot's lower
> console...and they look COOL! Very bright, even on the meager 25v DC I
> scrounged up. Hopefully the retractable nosewheel landing light will
> start working once I get power to the primary DC bus (I actually have
> tested the retract operation by putting power directly to the center
> pole of the extend/retract light, it looks really cool!).
>
> My goal is to trace all the wires that come out to the massive array of
> terminal strips at the rear of the cockpit. If I can do that, I should
> be able to put nearly all my systems interfaces back there (instead of
> stashing Arduinos and breadboards in various nooks and crannies inside
> the cockpit...this will also prevent having to run
> USB/serial/network/other logic wiring right alongside 400hz or other
> power delivery wires). The avionics interfaces will all go in the
> nose, as the harnesses for those are still fully intact, and I have
> already started
I wanted to use "junk boxes on the ARINC racks myself and you can score 
them on ebay most of the time... but those dam ARINC connectors are not 
cheep.. some of my round Bendix connectors for my radios are 40 bucks or 
more. But that ARINC 600 connector is 500 - 800 bucks just for the dam 
connector with out the pins  and they are sub 5 bucks each..
So I hope you have DEEP POCKETS....

Cris H.
BTW photos where kick ass...
> collecting "junk" internal avionics boxes to mount my
> interfaces and computers into (these are standard avionics boxes that
> will slide in and lock into the shelves inside the forward nose
> compartment, complete with industry-standard connectors).
>