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| L-1011 Trainer: Instrument Lighting Build-Out (FE Station) |
Today we continued the build-out of some of the integral instrument lighting on the FE station as well as the main instrument panel. On the FE station we connected the Engine %RPM N2 instruments as well as the Slat Monitor / Slat Position Indicator. All the instruments use 5V power and are driven from either the FE Station Lower Right Light Bus (for the %N2) and the FE Station Upper Right Light Bus (Slat Position).
During the connector installation we discovered that the FE station used for the trainer has a metal plate right behind the Slat Monitor that prevented the connector from mating correctly with the instrument. Therefore, we had to make a panel configuration change and move the Flight Engineer's Annunciator Panel into the position of the Slat Monitor and moved the Slat Monitor down.
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| L-1011 Trainer: FE Station Instrument Lighting and Door Annunciator |
We don't think that this configuration change is going to make a significant difference to the authenticity of the L-1011 cockpit, however, one of the %RPM N2 instruments is still one of the original simulated procedures trainer instruments. Need to replace it with the real flight hardware as soon as I can find one.
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| L-1011 Trainer: FE Station %N2 Instrument Lighting |
Last week we had started powering up the instruments on the pilot's center instrument panel. This is the place where the majority of the engine instruments are located. The instruments are split into two 5V light buses: Captain's Center Instrument Left and Captain's Center Instrument Right. The instruments that you can see illuminated in the picture below all belong to the Center Instrument Right light bus. During the initial build-out session we discovered that we did not have the right connectors for the Engine EPR instruments ... hence, we could not connect them ... we missed three Deutsch 15-S7 connectors. We now have them (those guys are hard to find and expensive) but we finally got them. So now all the instruments belonging to this light bus are connected.
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| L-1011 Trainer Build-Out: Main Instrument Panel Engine EPR Instrument Lighting |
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