Tonight I finalized the pitot wiring. I have a separate connector at the wing root for pitot heat. Since I had previously planned for a regulated pitot tube, I had three wires run to the pitot tube. With the unregulated model, I don’t need to use the third wire, so I’m leaving it in place as another spare wire.
I unpinned the pitot heat wire from the standard Vans wiring harness and connected it to the separate Pitot heat molex connector, then ran another ground wire from the pitot heat molex connector to the ground point on the fuselage. At the pitot tube end, I installed pins on the wires from the pitot tube, but held off on installing them into the molex connector. I need to wait until I have installed the mast, and the pitot tube, routing the wires through the mast in the process. If I install the connector now, there won’t be enough room to fit the molex connector through the mast.
Anyway, it was a fairly quick job to get this all finalized.
