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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:34 am    Post subject: Re: Wingtip Light Monitors Reply with quote



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:37 am    Post subject: Re: Wingtip Light Monitors Reply with quote


Mark,
Good info about your wingtip indicators. Thanks.
I have a similar system in my LNC2 Lancair that I installed in the mid '90's (first flight 3/99).
The fiber optics, three from each wing tip, one each for navigation, strobes, and tail lights, are routed thru each wing electrical conduit to a small indicator face on the lower area of the instrument panel. The small face on the instrument panel has small colored lenses for the nav. lights and clear lenses for the strobes and tail lights. The optic fiber ends in the wing tips are actually mounted inside each light fixture hence the reason for the colored lenses on the panel.
I had a '70 Corvette and a '78 Seville that both utilized fiber optics. So I figured it ought to work on the Lancair.
An early test in a friends hanger using his RV, with me under a blanket looking straight into the end of a fiber when he turned on his strobes, was very convincing. It worked better than I had anticipated. It was so bright, I couldn't see for several minutes. I ended up removing the lenses in the panel display and dulling the back side of them with sand paper to tone down the brightness.
So far, this simple wing tip light indicator system has been trouble free. I will install the same system when I begin construction of a Lancair Legacy.
Gary Edwards
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Medford, Oregon
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