There's a crop of my light section of wiring. The Yellow, red and blue lines off to the right go to VPX pins. The jist is the VPX controls the wig-wag, recog stuff so each Landing light is wired separately to the VPX, however the Taxi wires will be joined and put to a single pin.
For the Nav lights and Strobes all three get wired together to include the green sync wire and put to a pin for Strobes and a pin for Nav.
First part that is confusing for me is the use of shielded wire. For the landing lights I believe I can use an 18 gauge 2 conductor shielded wire. Since I'm centralizing my ground do I actually use solder sleeves at each end and the shield becomes basically the ground 'wire'?
If that's the case for the Nav and strobes I can use a 20 gauge 3 conductor wire to bring the two wing lights and the tail lights together. Again using solder sleeve on the shielding to act as the common conductor.
The next question I have deals with routing of the actual wires and how to tie shielded cables together to not reduce the shielded properties. The landing lights are pretty straight forward, I'll run the wire in from each side then up the side of the fuselage to the panel. At the VPX I'll have to split out the Landing light wires and punch those down into their VPX pins and join and connect the Taxi light to their pin. Are there any precautions I need to take at this point? My thought is keep the shielding of the landing light wires to essentially the VPX pin and break the Taxi light out which will be shielded for about 8 inchs to connect and then go to the pin.
For the Nav and Strobes it's a bit different. Obviously they still have to come from the wings and the tail but is it best to tie them all together at the panel to not break the shielding at different points or is there some other preferred method of doing this?
Just want to make sure I understand all this before moving forward with the physical layout of this stuff.