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nevilleboyle(at)bencomm.c
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:44 pm Post 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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jjessen

Joined: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 285
Location: OR

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: WIG-WAG HIDS

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

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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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