Can anyone who has installed Ziptips elite in their -10 advise me on the number and length of wiring they used in their wings to the tips.
Damien says it needs fifteen wires in each wing. Really. I am confused looking at the one diagram they have on their site.
Thanks. Pics would be great as well to see how you have done it.
Do you have your tips yet?
I have a set of Ziptips "Premier," I'm not familiar with the "elite" version. I have not installed mine yet. I have two different diagrams. The printed version that came with my tips is labeled "ZipTip III - wiring diagram - RevC" and the digital version I found on their web site is labeled "Zip Tips III Wiring diagram Rev D." They do not appear to be substantially different to me.
That said, I have reviewed the diagram and also have the pigtail connectors in front of me. The left hand one has 10 conductors and the right hand one has 9 conductors. They range from about 20 to 16 gauge.
Per the diagram, one wire needs to be run from tip-to-tip for the built in wig-wag system to work (there is a wig-wag synchro wire that needs to be connected between the tips).
Additionally, one wire needs to be run tip-to-tip for the strobe synchro to work.
Keep in mind that if you are using a VP-X, Vertical Power recommends not using the lights' built-in wig-wag circuit, but using the VP-X wig-wag control instead. That would require one less conductor to be run from tip-to-tip.
The total conductor count to the wings might vary if you were to tie the grounds together and run a single (properly sized) ground out to the tip (probably adviseable rather than using the wing structure for ground return).
But the total conductors, as I understand the diagram, if you were wiring per the diagram and using independent grounds back to a ground bus, would be 9 on the right, 10 on the left (that tenth one on the left is for something called "master-slave select," which I guess chooses the unit that controls the synchronization. Remember this is for the version I have, not necessarily the one you have.