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How did you route yours thru the rear bulkhead? Pictures welcome.
Small hole in the side of the hat shelf
Seems easiest. The whole back hat shelf thing / bulkhead is just a big piece of plastic in ours and is just held in by Velcro anyway. Could just stuff it through anywhere around the edge but a little hole would be cleaner.
For extra protection I used a rubber grommet to pass through the rear bulkhead and exit the battery box on my Beech Sundowner.
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Whether you want it just flopping around somewhere after that is up to you, but fusing it right at the battery end, would be smart.
That right there. I wish I knew why the manufacturers don't have an inline fuse on it to begin with. A short on that line could easily cause a fire at any time, whether in flight or in the hangar. There goes the airplane for the price of a fuseholder and fuse. Probably illegal, too.
Nice clean install John. What did you do when you needed to remove the bulkhead, as far as the wiring disconnect between the batt and the female charger receptacle?
You already have a 5 amp (or thereabouts) fuse right at the battery box. Or at least you should. We call that the "keep alive" circuit for the clock and such that need to run when the master is off. The FAR specifies that it should be located as close to the battery box as possible and not exceed 5 amps. The clever way would be to remove the cigarette lighter or whatever it is called these days and install a 2mm power plug that fits in the same hole size and run to the aforementioned keep alive bus. That way your floater is a plug in with no holes or having to remove it every time you want to use the airplane.
Jim