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graybeard

Joined: 20 Sep 2011
Posts: 33
Location: Grants Pass, OR

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:59 am Post subject: Landing/Taxi Light Options

I would like some feedback on this subject as it is one of the loose ends  in planning my electrical system.  I have settled on AeroLED for the  position lights/strobes, but am having difficulty sorting through all the  landing/taxi light options.  Plan A would be to use LED lights in the tips,  but I am not sure what all will or will not fit there.  Although I  understand that leading edge lights are an easy installation, I would just  prefer not to incur the additional work to do the leading edge  cutouts.    Another question:   Given the landing  attitude of the 8, are separate landing and taxi lights required?  Seems to  me that maybe a combination of the right output and targeting angle could work  using single light sources in each tip.

  

 Stan Loer

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Matt Dralle
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:45 am Post subject: Landing/Taxi Light Options

At 11:58 AM 4/5/2013 Friday, you wrote:

 	  Quote: 	
		  I would like some feedback on this subject as it is one of the loose ends in planning my electrical system.  I have settled on AeroLED for the position lights/strobes, but am having difficulty sorting through all the landing/taxi light options.  Plan A would be to use LED lights in the tips, but I am not sure what all will or will not fit there.  Although I understand that leading edge lights are an easy installation, I would just prefer not to incur the additional work to do the leading edge cutouts.    Another question:   Given the landing attitude of the 8, are separate landing and taxi lights required?  Seems to me that maybe a combination of the right output and targeting angle could work using single light sources in each tip.

 

Stan Loer

RV8 QB       


	




I installed two Duckworks 50w HID lights, one in each wing tip; one angled for Taxi, one for Landing.  Installation was straightforward.  Brightness of the HID lights is amazing!  On final approach, I light the whole runway up!  Like landing during the day!  I highly recommend the Duckworks product; one in each wing.  I've got no question that I'm going to be able to make a safe landing with the amount and position of light I get from the installation.  And that's really what its all about.



Here is a detailed installation log on my experience:



<http://www.mykitlog.com/users/display_log.php?user=MattsRV8&project=638&category=2982&log=81622&row=175>http://www.mykitlog.com/users/display_log.php?user=MattsRV8&project=638&category=2982&log=81622&row=175 



There are 9 parts to the log, so be sure to click through all of the various pictures and log entries related.



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