Youtube "landing light test" and it will yield quite a few videos of Halogen to HID to AeroLed comparisons. Aviation Consumer also did a review of a bunch of the LED lights that were out in their October 2010 issue that can be found in the archives of their website. The problem is all of the videos and non-biased tests and reviews I have seen are at least 2-3 years old. A lot has happened since then to include AeroLed announcing a wingtip landing light specifically for RV wing tips, and Ztron Labs releasing their Landing lights at a very reasonable price with built in Wig-Wag. I am finishing up my wings and have been researching the same item you are. I am hoping to at least to get the mounts and wiring done before I put my wings away in hopes of buying the lights during the finishing phase. From what I have found, to universally wire the wings for the "majority" of the Landing lights that are out you will need to run 2ea 18 awg wires for Power and Ground, 1ea 20 awg wire for the Sync and 1ea 22 awg wire for the Wig-Wag function. Hopefully someone will produce a video of Ztron labs landing lights vs Aeroled lights sometime by then. Good Luck, hope this helps a little.
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