At long last, the FPS-Plus Reflex flap controller is all wired up. The picture below is a little disorienting. The view is looking up under the panel and to airplane right. The firewall is on the left, and the controller is mounted upside down under the right side relay shelf. Following a suggestion made by Bob Nuckolls somewhere, each wire that goes into this blue "European style" terminal strip has been tinned with solder first to make a solid wire that's more crush proof than individual copper strands, which would get pretty mangled under compression by the set screws. The solder tinned end is then lightly coated with the ubiquitous TefGel for a little additional anti-corrosion protection. All that plus lableing takes a lot of time because, although I've been able to do most of the other panel work from the front of the panel, through subpanel cutouts, all this work has to be done upside down in pretzel position.

I'm thinking of mounting a thin sheet of acrylic to cover the controller wiring. In heavy turbulence, or even flailing about while reaching back into the baggage area, the co-pilot's shoes could get thrown up there... which is one of several reasons all the other wiring is so well protected in this area.