Ivan's RV-7

Continuing wiring the power distributionTimer icon2h

June 28, 2026

A little more progress on the power distribution wires.

The progress is slow due to vacation time, but I did a little bit of wiring in between my two weeks off.

First, I figured out the ground wire routing and mounted the Amploc KEY100 Hall effect sensors to the F-6118 rudder brace with some huge Adel clamps.

Ground wires and hall effect sensors

Hall effect sensors

These two sensors will be measuring the current "leaving" the corresponding ground wires of the batteries, which should give me a positive current when the batteries are being charged.

Then I mounted two of my STPS24045TV diodes on the fuse panel.

Avionics buses diodes

And two other diodes -- next to the engine bus.

I think that with the whole airframe around them acting as a heat sink, they should get enough cooling, but I will run a 30A test on the engine bus diodes to see what their temperature looks like.