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RST Engineering wrote:
If I heard that once, I heard it a hundred times. What I wouldn't give to hear it again. :-( Fellow grows up in New England and has a real taste for a fish delicacy called "scrod" (a type of codfish only found in NE waters). He gets sent to the midwestern headquarters and after a year or so gets called back to the New York office for a meeting. Drooling at the thought, he hops into a JFK cab and asks the cabbie if he knew where he could get scrod. The cabbie turns around and says, "Buddy, I've hoid dat question ten t'ousand times, but dat's the FOIST time I've ever hoid it in de plupoifict subjunctive." Jim Um, Jim? Even for you that's a new low. May all your fleas have camels. Get thee hence and do penance at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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On Aug 16, 7:44 pm, Lou wrote:
I'm getting close to covering my wings. I don't currently fly at night and could even say that I have no intention on flying at night. However I had no intention on getting married either. Would anyone install lights anyway or just limit yourself to flying in the daylight. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I would not install lights... But I WOULD install ultra-bright LED's. -R.S.Hoover |
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Given the odds of being caught aloft after local sundown, there is a
clear-cut need for navigation lights. But the cost and current-drain of traditional nav lights makes them a luxury for anyone building on the cheap. Which is why I developed the circuit boards and etching procedures that allows the use of inexpensive high-output LED's. I don't recall when the procedure was posted but it works quite well. The follow-on procedure, which has not been posted, shows how to assemble the strobe light offered by Great Plains Aircraft. The point here is that when fabricating a new airframe, the effort & material needed to include nav-light wiring is such a pittance compared to the whole that it's difficult to NOT justify its inclusion. -R.S.Hoover |
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"jan olieslagers" wrote But once you go for LED's, bright is the way to go, and ultra-bright is better and the day they have hyper-bright we'll want those. Come to think of it, LED's are just like pilots and tower controllers and instructors and whoever else: the brighter the better! There was a link floating around for a new combination position light and anti collision flasher using only LEDs. It was just approved as a STC for use on planes in the C-141 size, and had 400 candela. That's some bright sum-a-beach LEDs, ya think? Here's a link: http://www.emteq.com/led400cd/index.html Of course, these are probably a "bit" more expensive than would probably be used on a homebuilt, but it does show what is possible for LEDs, today. -- Jim in NC |
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I guess I'm putting in the lights.
Lou |
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On Aug 18, 4:24 pm, "Morgans" wrote:
Of course, these are probably a "bit" more expensive than would probably be used on a homebuilt, but it does show what is possible for LEDs, today. -- Jim in NC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The red and green masks are in the Chugger archives but I can't find the white nor the strobe. At that time, green LED's were the most expensive, requiring about $20 worth of green LED's per unit. Given Moore's Law and the fact I posted the masks in 2006, the price has probably dropped dramatically. The least-cost option, then as well as now, is to flash a signal lamp through a green lens. -R.S.Hoover |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:44:28 -0700 (PDT), Lou
wrote: I'm getting close to covering my wings. I don't currently fly at night and could even say that I have no intention on flying at night. However I had no intention on getting married either. Would anyone install lights anyway or just limit yourself to flying in the daylight. Lou -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Although I never intended to get married or have kids or assume the risk of single engine night flight ever again..... it makes a heap of sense to install lights while it's a piece of cake to do so. If you are at all like me, [perish the thought], there will be times that getting home late in the evening may require them just to be legal.... not to mention the value they add should you ever care to sell your pride and joy. - Barnyard BOb - 54 years of licensed flight The more people I meet, the more I like my dog and George Carlin humor. |
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Ok, while we are on the subject.
Ok, while we are on the subject. Would you also install landing lights? If so, what is recommended? Remember this is experimental so I'm thinking of rectangular headlight types for expense and ease of installation. Lou |
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