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 Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: WIG-WAG HIDS |
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If you are prepared to potentially sacrifice some bulb light it is possible to WIG-WAG the HID Xenon globes.You need to be aware that the globes have a warm up time while the gas is ionising and they need to warm fully to burn the deposit left while warming up off the glass (this means the flash rate needs to be longer than 3 seconds per side) The second problem is that most of the commercial flash units rely on a low impedance through the filament of the traditional globe that does not exist with the xenon alternative.On my plane I increased the capacitor size to slow the flash rate and provided a additional earth in stead of the traditional path through the globe filament
Neville Boyle
VH-NVL 33 hours
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jjessen
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: WIG-WAG HIDS |
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I plan on 1 or 2 HIDS for landing. Probably 1. Van's standard for taxi (wig-wag) and position. Strobes of course. Should be simple enough. Maybe do LED for position if there is some combination that will fit.
John Jessen
40328 tailcone
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From: owner-rv10-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv10-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Neville Boyle
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Subject: WIG-WAG HIDS
If you are prepared to potentially sacrifice some bulb light it is possible to WIG-WAG the HID Xenon globes.You need to be aware that the globes have a warm up time while the gas is ionising and they need to warm fully to burn the deposit left while warming up off the glass (this means the flash rate needs to be longer than 3 seconds per side) The second problem is that most of the commercial flash units rely on a low impedance through the filament of the traditional globe that does not exist with the xenon alternative.On my plane I increased the capacitor size to slow the flash rate and provided a additional earth in stead of the traditional path through the globe filament
Neville Boyle
VH-NVL 33 hours
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