Cessna landing light switch; solved!

I had asked if anyone knew of a replacement Cessna landing light switch
that would turn on the taxi light and landing light separately (not
both on the second pull-out notch so as to ease the electrical load
during low RPM). I had given up and was going to take Denny's advice to
remove the existing switch to be replaced with whatever I could find,
not necessarily certified, that would work. Well guess what; the
existing switch had an extra unused post on it. Seems Cessna, in its
apparent wisdom, made the switch configurable to either setup. All I
had to do was put the taxi light lead on the other post and I had just
what I was looking for. Why can't all problems be this easy?

I guess I missed that post. My 67 182 had a split landing/taxi light
switch. They look just like the split master/alternator switch except
they aren't red. You can get those from Cessna or any number of other
places.



jim wrote:
I had asked if anyone knew of a replacement Cessna landing light switch
that would turn on the taxi light and landing light separately (not
both on the second pull-out notch so as to ease the electrical load
during low RPM). I had given up and was going to take Denny's advice to
remove the existing switch to be replaced with whatever I could find,
not necessarily certified, that would work. Well guess what; the
existing switch had an extra unused post on it. Seems Cessna, in its
apparent wisdom, made the switch configurable to either setup. All I
had to do was put the taxi light lead on the other post and I had just
what I was looking for. Why can't all problems be this easy?