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Old 09-27-2018, 07:15 AM
BillL BillL is offline
 
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Default +1 for Baja

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Just an FYI... the Baja Squadron lights are available with different lenses. They make a "combination" unit which has two clear lenses and two "spreader" lenses to cover each of the 4 LEDs. This gives both good distance penetration and good spread for taxi.

I have a pair of the Squadron Pro's in my aircraft, mounted out in the wingtips. Short of airliners I've never had as much light available for both landing and taxi. Mine are the really tight spot beams. I've been giving consideration to installing the combination lens on at least one of them to get some light closer to the nose of the airplane for taxi purposes, but have opted instead to put in some inexpensive small flood lights in the cowl which are controlled by their own independent switch.

By the way, I wig-wag the Squadron Pros using the wig-wag module from Perihelion Designs. When flying the FISK arrival at Oshkosh this summer the controller at FISK indicated he could easily see us from about 8 miles back. As he said... "Love those LEDs!"
I got extra lenses to enable swapping after testing. Also, the Baja light prices vary widely, so look at the second or third page of google listings. They make a small and large style. I used the smaller one for the tips (before Pauls offering) and for the leading edge, the larger is more powerful and will fit. Electrically they are dead quiet a major plus.

I found these guys had be best pricing in the past.
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Old 09-27-2018, 07:26 AM
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I put the ZipTips on our RV-10 and we love them.

Built in WigWag too.
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Old 09-27-2018, 09:14 AM
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Default RF noise

These are priced right and look perfect for replacing the in-wing halogen lights in my RV-9 wings. Do they cause any radio noise?

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I replaced my halogen landing light with this back in 2017. Works great. Super bright.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Old 09-27-2018, 11:09 AM
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These are priced right and look perfect for replacing the in-wing halogen lights in my RV-9 wings. Do they cause any radio noise?
None at all.
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Old 09-30-2018, 01:46 PM
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Default A little more info on Flyleds

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I haven't seen the FlyLeds landing lights. Unless they have some sort of spot lenses like the BD lights, they won't really throw very far. Raw lumens doesn't necessarily translate into usable light down the runway. I'm a happy customer of their position/strobe lights.

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Flyleds has more than one kit option for landing lights. Their "Combo Lights" are what this post was originally about, which is a kit containing four Cree LEDs that should meet the same specs as the LEDs in the Baja Squadron Pro. Combo lights are mounted on a square board that can be fit up in the duckworks equipment, mounted in a PAR36 sized fixture, or custom mounted according to your situation. The Combo Lights are $199 per kit (if you're doing one in each wing, you'll need two kits), and have one light that can be adjusted and controlled independently of the other three to provide taxi lighting.

Flyleds uses collimators to focus the light into the spot pattern. Collimators do functionally the same thing that a lens or reflector would do, and they are very efficient at getting the light where you need it.

They also have "The Works" kits, which are an integrated unit that combines their wingtip position/strobe kit with three landing light spots. The spots in the Works kits are the same ones that come in the combo kit; they're super-bright and use the same collimators. Works kits are $599 (enough for both wingtips).

You can find more info at Flyleds site here, or on our site here.
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Old 09-30-2018, 02:16 PM
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I replaced my halogen landing light with this back in 2017. Works great. Super bright.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Mine is an incandescent. Will this swap out with the stock in-wing light? It looks too easy.....

Thanks.
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Old 10-13-2018, 10:11 AM
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Slice ... how did you mount the 4x6 LED?s in the wing leading edge?
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Old 10-14-2018, 03:57 AM
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FlyLeds are the ducks nuts.

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Old 10-14-2018, 03:10 PM
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I got extra lenses to enable swapping after testing. Also, the Baja light prices vary widely, so look at the second or third page of google listings. They make a small and large style. I used the smaller one for the tips (before Pauls offering) and for the leading edge, the larger is more powerful and will fit. Electrically they are dead quiet a major plus.

I found these guys had be best pricing in the past.
I've been very happy with my Baja Squadron Pros on my RV 7 with the spreader lenses on the bottom two elements(4 in all). Use with the standard wig wag and often for daylight recognition. Highly recommended.
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Old 10-15-2018, 01:44 PM
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Ive just taken AeroLED taxi lights and landing lights out of my Husky... less than 50 hours use. two of each. also have a wig-wag unit.
Happy to sell all at half price plus shipping.

I've fitted ZipTips Premiere, so don't need the AeroLEDS now...
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