Stephen Teate wrote: >I am in the process of laying out my instrument panel and am wondering > if there is an advantage or disadvantage of having a separate avionics > master switch?
I just have "all" of my avionics on one breaker/switch, which is just the radio and transponder. That breaker gets its power from the main breaker like all of the other breakers. I can't think of a time I'd want just the radio and transponder to be on with everything else off, but if the occasion ever arose, it'd take about 3 seconds to switch everything off but them. I do turn the avionics breaker off when I start or shut the engine down, just in case of some crazy spike. I have another breaker with for "instruments", which is turn and bank, GPS, EIS, mixture meter, fuel gauge, and that sort of thing. For what it's worth... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL mail: N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website: www.N56ML.com
