Ground Power and Bus Switching Panel – Backlight

During the last weeks I have finished the re-wiring and backlight of the Ground Power and Bus Switching Panel.

Fist it was removed from the overhead panel and all wired need to be cut, as no connectors were installed in 2009.

Once removed the panel was in the refitted with 12V LED strips.

and connectors where installed in the flightdeck as well on the panels to reconnect it more easily.

The LED boxes where replaced to black ones, that the new backlight won’t shine through.

To finally reassemble it in the overhead it “only” had to be reconnected. But there the issue started…

The place behind the panel was too small to fit the new connectors in, because back in 2009 we tried a backlight through a plexiglass screen, but this was not working as expected, but there was already the full overhead built. So I needed to get some place. So I have taken some “heavy equimpent” and drilled some holes in the plexiglass.

Finally finished and it looks very good.

What I forgot now to mention was the thing that stared to whole “operation”. The perfect looking APU gauge was the initial driver of the retrofit. As all my retrofitted gauges, also this was bought from customsimparts.