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armywrights(at)adelphia.n
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject: HID lights

Tim and others with DW installed,  

   

Do the DW lights light up well enough for you?  My original idea was to use the DW for ldg and the Van’s ldg light kit for taxi.  I’m at a point that I can forego the Vans kit but would like some field research on how well the DW lights do with one pointed for ldg and one pointed for taxi.  

   

Rob Wright  

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Tim(at)MyRV10.com
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject: HID lights

Well, this might not be exactly what you're looking for but....



I've got 2 Duckworks HID's.  From the time that I've installed them,

I haven't gotten around to properly aiming them.  Right now they

are way too low, maybe 30' in front of the plane or so...not

what you'd necessarily want for night landings.   But here's the

big "however".   HOWEVER, with those HID's, even with them so

mis-aimed that they really shouldn't be too good, they are so

darn bright that they are much better than my old plane that

had 2 100W halogen standard aviation lamps in it, or the single

250W that it originally had.   One of these days I'll get around

to aiming them a bit further forward, and based on what I'm seeing

now, I think it will really be impressive.   I'm not really one

who cares for separate landing and taxi lights, but I think if

you aimed one for taxi, it will still be plenty of help for

landing.  The coolest part about the HIDs isn't even the

brightness....it's the fact that my ammeter only goes up by

6A when both are lit up!



Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying



Rob Wright wrote:

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		   Tim and others with DW installed,

 

  

 

 Do the DW lights light up well enough for you?  My original idea was to 

 use the DW for ldg and the Van’s ldg light kit for taxi.  I’m at a point 

 that I can forego the Vans kit but would like some field research on how 

 well the DW lights do with one pointed for ldg and one pointed for taxi.

 

  

 

 Rob Wright

 

 #392

 

 Wingtips

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armywrights(at)adelphia.n
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: HID lights

Thanks.



Do not archive



Rob



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wayne.e(at)grandecom.net
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:39 am Post subject: HID lights

Rob,

  

 I installed the DW HID's but I'm not flying yet, so  can't comment on coverage. But I went ahead and installed Van's also because I  wanted to have the ability to install a Wig Wag system to allow me to flash my  lights (wig wag) when I'm coming in to land. The fellow at DW told me I couldn't  WigWag the HID's so I will use the Van's lights for  that. 

  

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LarryRosen

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Location: Medford, NJ

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:01 am Post subject: HID lights

I have already installed Vans lights, but after reading on VAF about 

light coverage and working on my electrical load analysis, I have 

decided to add one DW HID light for landing and use the Vans lights for 

taxi.



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armywrights(at)adelphia.n
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject: HID lights

Yeah, that's my original plan.  I thought I could adapt Bill VonDane's LED

Nav lights for installing sideways but they just don't put out the light in

that orientation.  So now I working on converting my hardware to the ldg

light/nav light combo and I'll put my strobe heads in by themselves.  



In this case I'm measuring about 6 times before I cut (hopefully) once!

Rob Wright

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