I finished wiring the goose neck light yesterday, but it wasn't working properly. It would go out if I flexed the goose neck outboard - not good. I spent quite a while today trying to figure out what was going on. I determined that the problem wasn't in the removable goose neck part. Rather one of the pins was making an intermittent contact where the goose neck plugged into the socket. I think I may have got the receptacle too hot when I soldered the power wire to it. I ended up bending one of the pins slightly to force it to press sideways against the side of its receptacle. Hopefully this will do the job, as it would be a pain in the your know what to solder a new socket in place.

The lamp does quite a good job of lighting up the panel. It will be my emergency instrument panel light, and I suspect I will use it to fill in the shadows that the LED flood lights leave. I think I will be able to flex the goose neck to sit ahead of my chest shining forward when I night fly.

The B&C dimmer assembly doesn't kill the light completely when it is turned to the minimum position. The intent is to leave a small amount of current flowing in the bulb to keep it warm and thus extend its life. I knew the dimmer worked like that, but the lowest intensify is higher than I expected. I won't know until I do a night flight whether that will be a problem or not. It won't be a problem if I keep the lamp facing at the instrument panel, but it might be a distraction if the lamp is facing in some other direction.

I'm heading on the road tomorrow for a week or so, but I think that will the last trip I do for quite a while. I need to get back into a regular building routine and make some good progress.

Another big order of stuff arrived from Van's a few days ago, so I have lots of things I can work on when I get back.