{"id":649,"date":"2015-06-08T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=649"},"modified":"2015-06-08T07:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T15:32:23","slug":"remote-transponder-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Remote Transponder Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had to think about this long mount a long time. \u00a0It took several days of discussions before we settled on this remote transponder (GTX 23\/ES) mount. \u00a0First, whatever we put here, where the aft battery should go, we need to be able to remove just in case I have to put the battery back here later for CG reasons. \u00a0We have the big heavy motor up front but this is an 8A and there is going to be a composite prop up front, so, I&#8217;m electing to go with an ultra-lightweight battery on the firewall. \u00a0The aft mounted ELT, Radio and heavy transponder should make up for the lack of aft battery weight.<\/p>\n<p>We purchased some 3\/4&#8243; square tubing from Spruce. \u00a0Two of these span the fuselage and a single standoff angle on each, tied to where the aft battery would go, provides some of the load bearing. \u00a0Everything is bolted and screwed into nutplates so you only need one hand to remove.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-638\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image6-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image6-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image6-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-641\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image9-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image9-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image9-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of clearance between the case and the elevator tubes. \u00a0The transponder slides in without any fuss. \u00a0The case is held on the rails with four AN509 8R14 screws with nutplates on the underside of the rails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-645\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image13-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image13-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image13-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had to think about this long mount a long time. \u00a0It took several days of discussions before we settled on this remote transponder (GTX 23\/ES) mount. \u00a0First, whatever we put here, where the aft battery should go, we need to be able to remove just in case I have to put the battery back <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=649' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,8,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}