I'm refreshing my electrical drawings and digging into some of the more specific details around breaker size and VPX pin allocation. I'm going with a pair of AeroLED Pulsar NS and a Suntail for Nav lights and strobes. Then I'm using a pair of AeroLED VX for taxi/landing/recog. I will also use the VPX to control wigwag, which essentially means each Landing Light is wired to it's own VPX pin.
Strobes - The AeroLED website essentially says peak 10 amp .19 for the strobes. The VPX manual says allocate 2 amps per strobe. So plan is a single 10A breaker (6A estimated draw).
Navlights - AeroLED states essentially .4A per light with the VPX manual saying .5A. Going with the highest I'm calling it 1.5A and putting it on a 2A breaker.
Taxilight - Again this one is straight forward, the AeroLED site says a combined pull of 3.4A so putting that on a 5A breaker.
Landing Lights - This is where it gets a bit confusing. To utilize the VPX to control the wig-wag I'll put each on a separate power pin and separate breaker. The datasheet on the site says a draw of 8.6A combined for a pair. That would put each at about 4.3A per light. So would think I could put each on their own 5A breaker.
Would love to hear from people who have used the same lights and what size breakers they used. I read through AC43.13 Chapter 11, I had though there was some margin you wanted to build in but didn't see anything in there about that. Thanks,
Strobes - The AeroLED website essentially says peak 10 amp .19 for the strobes. The VPX manual says allocate 2 amps per strobe. So plan is a single 10A breaker (6A estimated draw).
Navlights - AeroLED states essentially .4A per light with the VPX manual saying .5A. Going with the highest I'm calling it 1.5A and putting it on a 2A breaker.
Taxilight - Again this one is straight forward, the AeroLED site says a combined pull of 3.4A so putting that on a 5A breaker.
Landing Lights - This is where it gets a bit confusing. To utilize the VPX to control the wig-wag I'll put each on a separate power pin and separate breaker. The datasheet on the site says a draw of 8.6A combined for a pair. That would put each at about 4.3A per light. So would think I could put each on their own 5A breaker.
Would love to hear from people who have used the same lights and what size breakers they used. I read through AC43.13 Chapter 11, I had though there was some margin you wanted to build in but didn't see anything in there about that. Thanks,