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What to do with wiring?
I forgot to mention some observations that I made about the wiring. In my unit virtually all of the original wiring is intact and will probably end up being used. One thing that I noticed while installing my foil was that I was not entirely sure exactly where each wire was going to come through the inner skin. My inner skins are all staked in the garage and not convenient to get to to take measurements while installing the foil. So what I ended up doing was to keep most of the wiring on the inside of the foil so that it would be easier to fine tune its route when I put the skins back in place. The main exception to this is that I ran some parts of the 110 volt wiring against the outer skin until I got closer to where the outlets would be. That made it a bit easier to secure the wires which are a bit heavy. I used glue on tie down anchor squares and plastic tie straps. Lately I have been ignoring the glue on the square and adding some of the panel adhesive I have been using.
My AS was mostly gutted inside when I got it. I know that all the 110 volt outlets work and I have used them for power tools or lights during my construction on the trailer. What I didn't think to do before I took everything about was to carefully check all of the 12 volt wiring before I disassembled everthing. I did at least put labels on all of the wires. I think that I will need to test the wires before I put my skins back on. It would have been easier to test everything will the fuse panel was still hooked up and most the lights and etc. were still in place. Now the fuse panel is out and nothing is connected at the ends of the wires. I will need to rig up a test curcuit using my battery and some alegator clips or some such thing.
Now I am going to have to give carefull consideration to my floor plan before I put the skins back in place. It would be much easier to add new wires now rather than after I put the skins back in place.
Malcolm
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