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Armament Group Kit — Assembly Guide

Planned kit — not yet available

This guide will be finalised with the kit. Steps and photos are TBD pending the first release. Don't follow it as a build recipe yet.

Assembling the Armament Group kit comes down to: prepare the boards, mount them in the printed panel, and connect the harnesses. No soldering of fine-pitch ICs is expected at the buyer level — the kit aims to be component-and-connector assembly.

Steps (planned)

  1. Check your contents against What's in the Box.
  2. Mount the switches, knobs, and indicators into the printed panel. (photo TBD)
  3. Fit the host board and the two breakout boards (AWRS, Misc Switch). (photo TBD)
  4. Connect the signal harnesses — JST-XH between the host board and each breakout. They're keyed; they only go in one way. (photo TBD)
  5. Connect power/bus — the Molex Mini-Fit Jr connectors carry 12 V / 5 V and CAN to the rest of the cockpit. (photo TBD)
  6. Double-check orientation on the keyed connectors before powering anything.

First panel group in your cockpit?

The Armament Group is a CAN node — it needs the shared SimGateway and PanelBridge backbone to reach the PC. If this is your first OpenSkyhawk panel, you'll set those up once; every later panel group reuses them.

Next: Flashing Firmware.