Hello all
Flyleds now sells landing lights! Introducing the Flyleds "The Works" kit.
(Please excuse the prototype mounting hardware on this example RV10 wing kit. Proper aviation components sourced from the usual suspects are supplied in the kits!)
We?ve been selling ?The Skinny? boards for a while now, which has allowed customers to fit lights like the Baja Designs Squadron Pros in their wingtip as well, and they?ve proven to be a popular option. Meanwhile we continue to get emails every week asking if we sold landing lights, so the decision was made to make our own.
Over the past eight months we have researched several LED varieties, found some fantastic collimators ('lenses') made all the way over in Finland, had some heatsinks custom made for us, and made more than a few prototypes that we have learned from. So many hundreds of hours have gone into the development of these that I should have kept a builders log...
We have selected (we believe!) the same LED chip from Cree that is found in the Squadron Pros. Obviously they have four LEDs where we have three so there is going to be a difference, but we think the results show that our lights still turn night into day. Three spotlights draws 3 amps per wing, producing 3600+ lumens of bright and clear 5000K white light.
The view out of the window of our world headquarters... The car at the base of the tree is a measured 200 feet away.
This is the light from one wingtip, ie the same light as shown in the picture above...
Our landing light mounting geometry is based on Van?s proven screw-and-spring mounting style. There is a dual LED and a single LED board in each wing, which are independently adjustable. We?ve done the soldering on the spotlight boards for you already. The spotlights each require about 15 minutes of your time to rivet some nutplates on and assemble.
We have designed a new controller board as well. It will wig-wag the landing lights as you might expect. If you turn the strobes on at the same time, the controller can be set to either wigwag the strobe LEDs in sync with the landing lights (which then becomes 6000+ lumens of light forwards, 3000 lumens outwards?), or the strobes will flash on the opposite wing to the active landing light, which will enhance the visibility of the strobes.
The new controller board will also allow the strobe LEDs to be turned on continuously (at reduced power) to act as flood lights. They will flood the area around your plane with light, not just down the road.
If you have a lighting controller on board like a Vertical Power VPX or Advanced/Dynon quick panel, we encourage you to use their system to control your landing lights and the wigwag function, as the landing lights can be wired entirely independently of the Flyleds strobes and position lights.
Just like in our existing position and strobe circuits, each landing light is driven with an individual constant current power supply, not a switching supply. This means there is no noise to be heard in your headset.
We're looking forward to updating the pictures with some completed installations in the coming weeks! We have a few kits in progress and several more in transit.
Assembly instructions are available to view on our website.
Flyleds now sells landing lights! Introducing the Flyleds "The Works" kit.
(Please excuse the prototype mounting hardware on this example RV10 wing kit. Proper aviation components sourced from the usual suspects are supplied in the kits!)
We?ve been selling ?The Skinny? boards for a while now, which has allowed customers to fit lights like the Baja Designs Squadron Pros in their wingtip as well, and they?ve proven to be a popular option. Meanwhile we continue to get emails every week asking if we sold landing lights, so the decision was made to make our own.
Over the past eight months we have researched several LED varieties, found some fantastic collimators ('lenses') made all the way over in Finland, had some heatsinks custom made for us, and made more than a few prototypes that we have learned from. So many hundreds of hours have gone into the development of these that I should have kept a builders log...
We have selected (we believe!) the same LED chip from Cree that is found in the Squadron Pros. Obviously they have four LEDs where we have three so there is going to be a difference, but we think the results show that our lights still turn night into day. Three spotlights draws 3 amps per wing, producing 3600+ lumens of bright and clear 5000K white light.
The view out of the window of our world headquarters... The car at the base of the tree is a measured 200 feet away.
This is the light from one wingtip, ie the same light as shown in the picture above...
Our landing light mounting geometry is based on Van?s proven screw-and-spring mounting style. There is a dual LED and a single LED board in each wing, which are independently adjustable. We?ve done the soldering on the spotlight boards for you already. The spotlights each require about 15 minutes of your time to rivet some nutplates on and assemble.
We have designed a new controller board as well. It will wig-wag the landing lights as you might expect. If you turn the strobes on at the same time, the controller can be set to either wigwag the strobe LEDs in sync with the landing lights (which then becomes 6000+ lumens of light forwards, 3000 lumens outwards?), or the strobes will flash on the opposite wing to the active landing light, which will enhance the visibility of the strobes.
The new controller board will also allow the strobe LEDs to be turned on continuously (at reduced power) to act as flood lights. They will flood the area around your plane with light, not just down the road.
If you have a lighting controller on board like a Vertical Power VPX or Advanced/Dynon quick panel, we encourage you to use their system to control your landing lights and the wigwag function, as the landing lights can be wired entirely independently of the Flyleds strobes and position lights.
Just like in our existing position and strobe circuits, each landing light is driven with an individual constant current power supply, not a switching supply. This means there is no noise to be heard in your headset.
We're looking forward to updating the pictures with some completed installations in the coming weeks! We have a few kits in progress and several more in transit.
Assembly instructions are available to view on our website.