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LarryRosen(at)comcast.net
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:54 pm    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


I am closing up the fuselage floors (hoping I have left enough access
for electrical runs) and I started thinking about interior lighting.
To light the baggage area is anyone installing lighting in either the
rear baggage door close out panel or in the rear seat bulkhead?
How about map lights for the rear passengers in the bulkhead?
What are some sources for interior lights?
Larry Rosen
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:34 pm    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


eBay or automotive supply houses have a variety of LED-type lights these days. That's probably your best bet - low current and long life . . .
TDT
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rick.conti(at)boeing.com
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:51 am    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


I found a "unique" baggage compartment light. I installed a 30" tube
inside the cross brace. Notice when you open the baggage door all the
way you have access to the open end of the cross brace. The lights come
with mounting brackets. The brackets weren't easy to install, but it
can be done. I bought the tube at an automotive store. It's one of
those lights you attach to the chassis of your car. They come in
different colors, I selected blue. I installed a small rocker switch on
the cross brace near the door. The blue light lights the area great and
it doesn't not impair your night vision.
Thank You
Rick Conti
office: 703-414-6141
cell: 571-215-6134


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:01 pm    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


Great idea, Rick.
However - the light needs to be red to preserve night vision. This is
because rods (night-vision retinal photoreceptors) have their maximum
sensitivity in the blue part of the spectrum, although this is perceived in
"black & white". Night vision adaptation takes >30min to acquire, and
milliseconds to lose if exposed again to a bright light. Red light doesn't
activate the rods very much, while allowing the red cones (bright light
photoreceptors) to function.
So what you wrote was perfectly correct : "blue light doesn't not impair
night vision" (doesn't not = does)
Indran Chelvanayagam
I found a "unique" baggage compartment light. I installed a 30" tube inside
the cross brace. Notice when you open the baggage door all the way you have
access to the open end of the cross brace. The lights come with mounting
brackets. The brackets weren't easy to install, but it can be done. I
bought the tube at an automotive store. It's one of those lights you attach
to the chassis of your car. They come in different colors, I selected blue.
I installed a small rocker switch on the cross brace near the door. The
blue light lights the area great and it doesn't not impair your night
vision.


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:17 pm    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


Anyone using the "ice blue" flatlight capacitance lighting system? Same
light is used in military and transport aircraft.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:32 pm    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


The military uses blue in all of the combat spaces as this does not
effect night vision and still lets you distinguish warning lights in
color. They used to use red but too many warning lights were being
missed. This is not to say it is a really bright light, but more of a
bedroom night light intensity. This makes the transition from the bridge
to combat and back again safer without destroying night vision.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:34 pm    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


And red lights also make the magenta color disappear from your charts
..... take a look at just how much info is printed in magenta!
Linn
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Lloyd, Daniel R. wrote:
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The military uses blue in all of the combat spaces as this does not
effect night vision and still lets you distinguish warning lights in
color. They used to use red but too many warning lights were being
missed. This is not to say it is a really bright light, but more of a
bedroom night light intensity. This makes the transition from the bridge
to combat and back again safer without destroying night vision.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:37 pm    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


Agree wholeheartedly. Give me the bluish-white of a dim LED light over red
any day. Army aviation teaches that after being in a red-light flooded
environment to night adapt, you still need at least another 5 minutes in the
"real" dark to be fully night adapted. You oughta try it some time so you
know just how much your color perception is off for a period after leaving
the red and walking outside, not to mention trying to use green-colored NVGs
right then too.
So for as long as I'll have my night-adapted eyes looking in the baggage
compartment, I'll take the blue/white. My eyes'll be fully back to "night
mode" by the time I get to the taxi checklist.
Rob
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:17 pm    Post subject: Interior Lighting Reply with quote


Do people still use paper charts? : )
TDT
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