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Old 01-21-2017, 07:29 PM
tgmillso tgmillso is offline
 
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Hi Paul. It appears you are getting your left/right adjustment using the supplied bracket, however how are you getting your up/down adjustment?
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Old 01-22-2017, 12:33 AM
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Hey Tom, for up and down I just elongated one of the screw holes so it rotates just a tiny bit.
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Old 01-22-2017, 01:46 AM
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Simple solution. I like it.
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Old 03-29-2017, 03:10 PM
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Default Baja Design leading edge taxi light

My RV-6 came with RMD wingtip lights only (both sides) with 50W par36 bulbs installed. Not much light, so I upgraded to 35W HIDs.

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Also adjusted both lights IN and DOWN as far as I could. This made for great lighting on takeoff and landing (with the tail up), but nil taxi lighting with the tail down. The light beams just didn't touch the pavement. So the decision was made to install a leading edge light kit on the pilot's side at least.

I picked the Baja Design Pro round led with the combo lens. Spot lens on top, and driving lens on the bottom. Since my light kit was designed for a PAR36 lamp, and the BAJA Designs is slightly smaller, I just needed to make an adapter plate to mount this. I used the factory bezel as a pattern for this part.

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Very pleased with the result. Initially, I had the lamp bracket adjusted to point DOWN as far as I could
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I've since adjusted the beam a bit higher. Very impressive LEDs.
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Old 01-12-2018, 10:22 AM
SpeedyMedina SpeedyMedina is offline
 
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Hi Guys!!! I buy the AEROLEDS SUNRAY PLUS LANDING LIGHT NON-TSO for my RV-9A, and I was wondering if you guys have any advice to install them in the wingtip area, any help I will appretiate!
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Old 02-27-2018, 08:08 AM
Paul 5r4 Paul 5r4 is offline
 
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In this photo is what the Baja Designs look like from the ground. I was flying over to my GF's house and she took this of me. She said from the time she took this photo until I was over her house was 6-7 minutes. At the groundspeed I was showing, that calculated out to 18-20 miles! I had the wig wags on so really, what you see in this photo is just 1...ONE of the lights! They are incredibly bright. Very happy with them. Some of my airport buddies tell me they can see me a "long long ways off" and they know it's me because my lights are so bright.

IMG_9553 by Paul Gray, on Flickr
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Old 02-28-2018, 01:53 PM
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This is a great thread. I am nearing the point of needing to commit to a lighting solution to finish my wings and am interested in the Baja Design products for landing/taxi lights for my RV-9A. It seems most of the posters that have installed these lights go with a pair of the spot pattern units. I am considering using a spot unit on one wingtip for landing and a spot/flood unit on the other for taxi use. The spot pattern seems very narrow and might not light up the edges of a wide runway. Anybody have an opinion on this? Thanks.
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Old 02-28-2018, 06:51 PM
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When I first got my lights I too was concerned about the beam angles. I setup one light and measured the angle then compared that the angle of attack of the aircraft on approach then in the tail low position and your associated focal distances. The beam angles were quite adequate to cover both scenarios, and worst case, you can angle one slightly down and one up. I don't yet have the aircraft flying, so hopefully someone can chime in who has some airborne experience with them.
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Old 02-28-2018, 07:46 PM
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OK, time for me to chime in. Please keep in mind we've only very recently had the 25-hour restrictions removed from our new airplane - those initial restrictions included "Day-VFR ONLY". In the last couple of weeks I've managed to get two night landings done.

We have a Baja Squadron Pro in each wingtip. That's what they were called when purchased and were billed as being 4300 lumens each. I chose the narrowest spot beam pattern because we have wildlife in the runway environment at our airport.

I've aimed both lights inward and downward - don't ask by how much because this was purely a "TLAR" (That Looks About Right) aiming of the lights conducted against the hangar wall 15 feet in front of the airplane. Turns out my initial guess was pretty good. The light beams converge about 200 feet in front of the airplane. This configuration allows the runway numbers and first thousand feet or so of the runway to be illuminated while in the nose-down approach attitude. As one rounds out in the flare the entire runway ahead is illuminated.

I might consider changing the lens on one light to a spot/driving combo such that two of the four emitters have diffusers in front of them. That would provide a bit more "spill" that would fill in immediately in front of the aircraft as we are taxiiing. I've provisioned for a pair of smaller (and much less expensive) LED units in the lower engine cowl and expect I'll install them to fill in for taxi purposes and leave the big Baja's turned off when taxiing. Man those things are bright!

With respect to the photo posted by Paul Gray, I chose these lights because of a similar experience reported by another builder of our aircraft type. He was flying in the smokey air of California and had a water bomber crew contact him on the radio to ask what kind of lights he was running. They reported him as being quite visible at a GPS-measured distance of 20 miles. I figured that was a good reason to go with the Baja Squadron Pro's. I wig-wag them for daylight operations, leaving them running all the time, from engine start to shut down.
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Old 03-01-2018, 08:25 AM
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Default Baja Design is RV-9A?

Looking through this thread, I see most of the wingtip installations have been done in -7"s and -8's. I am under the impression the RV-9(A) has a different wingtip profile that may be smaller with less space inside the cavity. Has anyone tried fitting the Baja Design Pro lights in a -9(A) wingtip?
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