A couple of smaller jobs. The external speaker has needed mounting. This is for monitoring, say the ATIS, while I’m getting in the plane without the headset on. Its also an IFR requirement, mind you its pretty outdated and from the days when headsets were sometimes not used.

This is one of those jobs that took a lot of planning despite being so small. I had to go through a bunch of the Garmin manuals to determine the correct wattage and ohms for the speaker. A few forums I looked at had it wrong. You can use 4 or 8 ohm speakers. I bought two speaker online for peanuts and the cover came super cheap and super slow from China. The current virus thing has made some online purchases glacial in the delivery phase. I hope it’s a thing of the past by the time anyone reads this.

So I made a hole and made it fit. I did line the bare foam with wet micro for an overnight cure and seal.

While the speaker may be partially covered by the front seat cushion it will work out well. That seat back now has the speaker, a heated air outlet and on the other side a double USB power supply. Every inch of this plane is filling up!

Meanwhile, after much discussion and planning, I’ve decided to use precious under seat baggage area for some fuses and relays.

These guys work for the ferry tank fuel pumps (2) and the main fuel pumps (2). I’ve used click bonds to mount them and they should be good in those positions and accessible if I ever need to get to them after the plane is though testing and finally flying regularly.