A little electrical help..

[Tram]

Man, all these posts, I really wish I'd built this thing..

Anyway, it's time for some HID landing/taxi lights along with a wig-wag setup.

My current setup has the landing light on a switch and the taxi light on another switch.

I'd like to change this to a 3 position switch, where up is wig-wag, middle is off and down is both lights going..

I've already picked up a wig-wag controller. My biggest question is getting the lights off two switches and onto the single switch..

Could someone explain the easiest way to go about doing this?

[Mike S]

Are you replacing the existing lights with the HID, or are you adding the HID, and keeping the existing lights for wigwag use???

I have read that some of the HID lights dont do well as wigwags. Maybe someone will jump in here and give a good answer to this one.

Have you considered LED lights, IIRC, Aeroleds have built in wigwag capabilities. http://www.aeroleds.com/

[Tram]

The biggest concern with HID's and wig-wag's is the warm-up period.. If you flick them on and let them warm up conventionally, you'll be good to go..

I'm replacing the existing lights with HID's..

[tkatc]

Jeff, I cannot help you with your problem but I do feel your pain!! I feel like a helpless idiot turning to the forums for every little squawk on my PURCHASED 7A. You are not alone!!!

[Tram]

Originally Posted by tkatc

Jeff, I cannot help you with your problem but I do feel your pain!! I feel like a helpless idiot turning to the forums for every little squawk on my PURCHASED 7A. You are not alone!!!

It's a little nerve racking isn't it?

I can usually figure things out, and will educate myself before I start working on stuff, well with this it's all "figure it out and go from there.."

[CharlieWaffles]

Sounds like you want a Double-Throw Switch (on-off-on) - http://www.aeroelectric.com/Referenc...ing_Manual.pdf.

[Tram]

Yeh, definitely a double throw, but I think I'll need a DPDT switch...

[D-Dubya]

Take a look at this link and see if you can make one of their options work. With a little creative thinking and some swapping around of connections, you may be able to get the switch positions that you wanted. http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles/WigWag/WigWag.pdf

[Tram]

Well a member here sent me info on how he wired his up, I guess I'm just trying to see if I need to have my lights wired specifically before I move to the next step..