Jeff,
is it so that folks in the advertising world trust more new gas lights?
Me too.
I have two Hella Xenons, port-side-one is a taxilight and middle one is
for landing.
I have been very happy with them.
Leds are brilliant but there are some problems like heat which is poison
for them.
Anyway - I am plannnig to update my navlights to leds.
I have now Whelen made ordinary glow bulb navlights w/o strobos.
They are OK but they draw totally 98 watts and that is laughable with
Rotax altenator
because like to use them all time flying.
Wishes, Raimo
OH-XRT 98hrs20min
Finland
www.rwm.fi
----- Original Message -----
From: "JEFF ROBERTS" <jeff@rmmm.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Retractable Landing light or LED
> I meant to send this the last time this thread was up but didn't have
> time. Us folks in the advertising world seem to be working twice as
> hard for half the money these days.
> Anyway, here is a shot of the front of Gold Rush. Just in case one of
> you might want to take the simple way out of the landing light issue.
> This is one of the new gas lights. At first I thought it interfered
> with the cooling but after some testing with used oil runs the light
> wasn't the cause. It ended up being some bad connectors for my
> stratomaster engine monitor.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff R.
> A258 - N128LJ / Gold Rush 170 hours but the runway is too soggy to fly
> right now. I think the droughts over here in mid Tennessee!
>
>
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> On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:43 AM, rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone tried a retractable Landing light or LED?
> >
> > Details please.
> >
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> >
> > Thinking pretty hard about mounting our hockey puck sized Kunzleman
> > LED on
> > the forward portion of the outrigger OR1 (the recepticle for OR2
> > outrigger
> > rod).
> >
> > When LED is retracted, we will add to outrigger fairing an LED well
> > (LED
> > lead edge fairing) where it will be very similar to the outrigger
wheel
> > fairing, somewhat aerodynamic lead edge shape with aft section
opened.
> >
> > Can think of it as an outrigger wheel positioned 90 degrees compared
to
> > the outrigger wheel at the tip of OR2 (outrigger rod).
> >
> > Install will be easy, turn around bolt that mounts OR2 to OR1 and
> > screw it
> > into a small piece of copper that will be mounted to the heat sink I
> > will
> > turn out of 6061 aluminium. The reason for the copper is it will be
> > used
> > for the aiming adjustment. Will first try a piece of the .500" wide,
> > .125"
> > thick copper alloy 110 I have laying around.
> >
> > Unlike old timer IBM typewriter repairmen (like my late Dad) who
> > cringe at
> > bending linkages to make a criticle adjustments, I am going the
> > Olivetti
> > or Royal typewriter route, where you make many adjustments by
bending.
> >
> > LED should be in tomorrow, will see if it can be used for both
Landing
> > and
> > Taxi with one adjustment. Beam spread is 24 degrees.
> >
> > Ron Parigoris
> >
> >
> >
> >
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