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Permalink Reply by Phill Barnes on February 6, 2012 at 9:22pm

Wow John, That's incredable. My Icom A210 weighs 1kg. 750 gms here, 100gms there. It all adds up in the end.

 

Well done

Phill

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Permalink Reply by Bill McWethy on February 8, 2012 at 6:18pm

Hi John

 

I have also gone with the MGL V6.  I haven't been where I can test it yet.  Here are a couple pictures mounted.

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Permalink Reply by John Austin on February 8, 2012 at 6:26pm

Looks great! Did you get the harness from MGL? If so, did it include the headset jacks?

Where did you find the M3-0.5 x 12mm mounting screws?

Thanks,

John

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Permalink Reply by Bill McWethy on February 8, 2012 at 8:52pm

Yes I did get the wire harness and it came with the hedset jacks as well as the music input jack.  You can see in the previous picture I submitted of the pannel that I mounted the headphone jacks plus the music jack below the fuel selector valve. Attached is a picture of the harnes as it came.  The mounting screws for the radio came with the radio.

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Permalink Reply by John Austin on February 8, 2012 at 9:14pm

Bill,

Thanks for the additional info! I'm supposed to be getting the harness soon. I also have a couple of Bose ANR headsets and have a couple of extra Bose harnesses. I'm wondering if I can just wire the Bose harness in series with the conventional jacks so I could use either one? Of course, the Bose jacks will have to have +12VDC for the headset power, too.

My radio didn't have the mounting screws - I've emailed Matt to send me some.

Thanks,

John

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Permalink Reply by Bill McWethy on February 8, 2012 at 9:30pm

I really don't know the answer to your question.  I believe you are right that they can be wired in series.  I remember the manual talks about how to wire four sets of jacks to the radio but I didn't read it too closely. MGL has a users forum on their web site where someone may be better able to answer that question,  The link is below.

http://www.mglavionicsusers.org/forum/index.php

 

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Permalink Reply by John Austin on February 9, 2012 at 5:45am

Thanks, Bill, the MGL forum came through for me! They said that what I want to do will work (actually the headsets are parallel, not series as I said) OR I could just wire the Bose "LEMO" harnesses in and not use the conventional GA jacks at all ... would save 4 more holes in the panel! Spruce sells a "Pilot USA PA-93" adapter for about $53 that lets you plug conventional headsets into the Bose jacks. I'd rather buy and keep one of those in the plane than have a bunch of extra jacks I never use.

Rainer also mentioned that with ANR headsets, the V6 will need rather low VOX settings or perhaps just turned off.

Regards,

John

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Permalink Reply by Bill McWethy on February 9, 2012 at 10:28pm

John I'm glad they came through for you.  They responded very quickly also.  I hope the radio works as well as they claim.

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Permalink Reply by John Austin on February 10, 2012 at 6:47am

Bill,

Matt is sending the mounting screws ... good customer service!

Another question (I've posted it on the MGL forum - no response yet) that perhaps you (or someone!) can answer - The MGL harness has separate "PTT HI" and "PTT LO" leads (two sets- one set for pilot and one for passenger). Do you know what the difference in "HI" and "LO" is?

I prewired the panel with a PTT lead that goes through the stick PTT switch and then to ground. I "assume" at least one of those leads connects to this? I'll also report the MGL forum's answer if I get one.

John

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Permalink Reply by John Austin on February 10, 2012 at 5:20pm

Here's the info from the MGL forum and from Matt:

The "PTT Hi" is the lead that goes to the PTT switch. The "PTT Lo" is a convenience lead that provides a ground. So, you can simply run the "Hi" to the PTT switch, connect the "Lo" and you're done!

In my case, however, I already prewired the PTT switch to ground. So, all I have to do is connect the PTT switch to "Hi" and I'm done!

John

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Permalink Reply by Marvin W Miller on January 13, 2013 at 9:33pm

Im also in the process of wiring my radio. The PTT HI and PTT LO also confused me. I called them and the PTT Lo is grounded back to radio. Also I saw in the manual sometimes the word "PAX", it means passenger.

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