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Review of a cheap set of molex crimpers good for making test equipment compatiable with alot of interior components.

Here is an example of a LED light bar tester that i made using these crimpers and my power supply.

 

Everyone here are some super cheap wire strippers I picked up off temu super cheap and good quality for the price.

Here is the quick review of a pair of crimpers I ordered from Temu. Came to my house shipped for right around $200 you can get them cheaper in the USA. Overall I think it's a great tool for the price won't see much use but nice for personel projects and trouble shooting, will save some trips back to the office keeping them in my bag. Disclaimer I cobed the crimp on the Daniels but I didn't want to restart the recording we all know daniles are quality right? 🤣

 

We swing our compass every 3 years another method you can use is the "Moses compass" not sure the proper name. 

 

This tool goes on a pole and you align the front and back of the aircraft with the sights, like a gun sight. Turn t the aircraft until the mag compass in the aircraft reads dead north for example walk out in front 30 or so feet then check it against the tool it's already 180 flipped so even though it's faced the opposite way it will read the same as the aircraft. If the aircraft compass doesn't read the same as the tool that's your deviation.

Nice write up Mark, I had to replace one of these about 8 months ago. Pain in the ass with the lift.

What happened to me the last two days is the most dreaded form of ass kicking, the self inflicted type.

What should have been a simple 30 minute fix ended up taking me about 6 hours due to small but critical error.

One of the girls reported to me that the 3 accent lights in the lav are not working. I go to check it out try getting them to turn on from a diffrent panel check the CB ect no luck. 3 lights out in the same area smells like a controller to me very common issue with our aircraft. 

I didn't have a meter with me so I go to the spare parts kit and pop a new bulb in doesn't light up. In my mind its exactly as i expected must be the controller. 

So I goto the very poor wiring diagram find that the controller is supposedly in the ceiling in the front of the aircraft (it wasnt) I spent about 4 hours to finally locate this controller it's in the mid cabin under some panels that will require roughly 8 hours to take down and put back up.  So at this point I called it a day.

Next day I decided since it will be such a pain to access the controller I will pull down the ceiling in the lav and do an inspection make sure everything is plugged in ect.

Now that I have my meter I decided that I would check while. I'm in here the plug for the light bulb, what did I find. 28v?!? I checked the other 2 plugs same. How could this be I tried the light agian no good. I got a dc power supply out and hit all 3 lights  no good. I went and got another light popped it in and it lit up.  Replaced the other two bulbs bang there was light. My first bulb was bad from stock, and since I was to lazy to get a meter in the beginning i ended up doing about 6 hours of work with the aircraft outside in 120+ heat where the packs cant keep up. 

Moral of the story dont be lazy dont trust parts from stock trust your meter cutting corners will cost you just like this.

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Would you mind giving me examples of high maintenance traffic area in concern with EWIS?




 

Some examples i can think of are

767 Main Equipment center near entrances/exits
767 Aft Accessory Near entrance/exit

Really anywhere wiring is running that is accessed often or where wire bundles could be used as hand holds.