Landing light options

IMHO, the LoPresti Boom Beams are much better. They are warranted for 5
years or 5000 hours and deliver 5-7x the light of a standard aircraft
bulb. These lights are standard on every Cirrus Design and Lancair
aircraft so LoPresti must be doing something right...

Ronnie wrote:

The rmd wingtip lights look nice. I didn't see any pricing
info on their web site. I wonder how expensive these are.

Yes, you will need to phone him. He is a real good guy to deal with. He
makes tips for knots 2 you people so doesn't advertise much. I bought
tips for my seneca with hid lights in the tips. I leave them on for
inflight recognition lights. i didn't really need new tips but I wanted
the light. The lights in my older tips really wern't much good in daylight.

In searching and reading you prior posts, I see that the
GE H7635 is a halogen 12V, 50W PAR 46 lamp that should
fits into the GE 4537 mount. Looks like bulbs.com has them
for $14.95. I think I'll try one of these.

That is the standard warranty of all hid lights, including RMD and knots
2 you. The Lopresti tips, for my seneca at least place the strope in
front of the light, as well as my aft faceing white nav light. Strobe,
nav and aft white are all one unit on my plane.

PAR 46 hid lights are comming down the pipe and are twice the brightness
of the 36. That would be the thing to get if your going to go hid. with
hid you get very little current drain. Three amps on the par 36 size.
Guessing about 6 amps for the 46?

I am putting two quarts lights on my nose strut. They are used very
little and probably better.

John

wrote:

IMHO, the LoPresti Boom Beams are much better. They are warranted for 5
years or 5000 hours and deliver 5-7x the light of a standard aircraft
bulb. These lights are standard on every Cirrus Design and Lancair
aircraft so LoPresti must be doing something right...

There is a a piece in the Aviation Consumer that arrived yesterday about HID
lighting. I can't regurgitate it in detail, but I remember they said the
Lopresti was far and away the most expensive, but the Lopresti kit was very
complete and made the install easier. The other brands made some kind of
shortcuts on the certification that allows them to sell cheaper. I think they
liked the 50 watt versions, I'm not sure which brand.

Dave

The Visitor wrote:
That is the standard warranty of all hid lights, including RMD and knots
2 you. The Lopresti tips, for my seneca at least place the strope in
front of the light, as well as my aft faceing white nav light. Strobe,
nav and aft white are all one unit on my plane.

PAR 46 hid lights are comming down the pipe and are twice the brightness
of the 36. That would be the thing to get if your going to go hid. with
hid you get very little current drain. Three amps on the par 36 size.
Guessing about 6 amps for the 46?

I am putting two quarts lights on my nose strut. They are used very
little and probably better.

John

wrote:

IMHO, the LoPresti Boom Beams are much better. They are warranted for 5
years or 5000 hours and deliver 5-7x the light of a standard aircraft
bulb. These lights are standard on every Cirrus Design and Lancair
aircraft so LoPresti must be doing something right...

Dave Butler wrote:

There is a a piece in the Aviation Consumer that arrived yesterday about
HID lighting. I can't regurgitate it in detail, but I remember they said
the


Lopresti was far and away the most expensive,

yep

but the Lopresti kit
was very complete and made the install easier. The other brands made
some kind of shortcuts on the certification that allows them to sell
cheaper. I think they liked the 50 watt versions, I'm not sure which brand.

Dave


I saw no evidence of any shortcuts on what I bought. Did they give any
examples?
My install was very easy with all stuff supplied. Beautiful product. But
it has to be for an stc'd kit. I was already wired up so I have
leftover. I think the lopresti bulbs are nicer in that you can choose
your beam pattern, but not brighter. I just couldn't stand the nav
light/strobe stuck in there with the landing light. I also had to have
mounted a white aft light in the wingtip to be legal for night, in
Canada. Really I would need engineering approval/field mod to do it
unless it was part of the stc.?

wrote:
IMHO, the LoPresti Boom Beams are much better. They are warranted for 5
years or 5000 hours and deliver 5-7x the light of a standard aircraft
bulb. These lights are standard on every Cirrus Design and Lancair
aircraft so LoPresti must be doing something right...


I installed the RMD HID lights, with a field approval (they're STC'd
only for the RMD wingtips, I mounted them on the nose bowl of my
Skylane). Installation was a cinch.

I went with the RMD lights because they're the same product, but half
the price, compared to the Boom Beam.

Those suckers are BRIGHT.

And, no filament to break. They're warrantied for thousands of hours,
just like the Boom Beam.

-jav

I went with the RMD lights because they're the same product, but half the
price, compared to the Boom Beam.

Those suckers are BRIGHT.

And, no filament to break. They're warrantied for thousands of hours, just
like the Boom Beam.

Just curious: Do you fly with them on all the time?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

was very complete and made the install easier. The other brands made
some kind of shortcuts on the certification that allows them to sell
cheaper. I think they liked the 50 watt versions, I'm not sure which
brand.

Dave


I saw no evidence of any shortcuts on what I bought. Did they give any
examples?

I'm not sure what you'd look for to find certification shortcuts. I just know
what the article said (paraphrasing, and from memory): Lopresti complained that
its competitors were not put through the same certification requirements that
they were. The FAA acknowledged that certification mistakes were made, but
declined to correct the mistakes.

Dave Butler wrote:


I'm not sure what you'd look for to find certification shortcuts. I just
know what the article said (paraphrasing, and from memory): Lopresti
complained that its competitors were not put through the same
certification requirements that they were. The FAA acknowledged that
certification mistakes were made, but declined to correct the mistakes.



"They" are no longer anybodies competitor.

I would also imagine that lopresti being the first to stc hid
installations had some hurdles to get by convincing the powers that be,
hid is safe and stable for aircraft. But I don't know about that for
sure. Heck look at the 4509 vs Q4509 issue.

Jay Honeck wrote:
I went with the RMD lights because they're the same product, but half the
price, compared to the Boom Beam.

Those suckers are BRIGHT.

And, no filament to break. They're warrantied for thousands of hours, just
like the Boom Beam.

Just curious: Do you fly with them on all the time?

Absolutely.

-jav