Alternate L.E.D. Recognition lights

[NYTOM]

Those new built in wing tip LED's sure are nice but has anybody out there tried to adapt a automotive LED to fit the thousands of us who already have the Grimes/ Whelen type standard navigation light fixture. There's many different type bulb replacements available ( see www.superbrightleds.com/led_prods.htm or www.ledlight.com/LZAuto.aspx )and I'm going to be Experimental and try a few to see if I can come up with anything doable without any modification to the light fixture itself so you could end up with a inexpensive plug & play affair. Just wondering if anybody has traveled down this road?

[Dean_aeroleds]

Tom,

You would need to make sure that any such LED bulb replacement produces at least as much light as the original bulb, and that it sends it out in a similar pattern such that it still meets the TSO requirements for a position light.

I doubt that you will be able to find an LED bulb that can produce enough light and dissipate its heat at the same time in a screw in bulb form factor. I also suspect that the radiation pattern will be different enough that it won't meet the TSO requirements when installed in place of a halogen bulb.

Dean Wilkinson
AeroLEDs LLC