Quick electrical question: left wing nav/strobe lights not working. I have the wings off for annual inspection. Before removing the light, I checked the fuselage connector. Three contact points. Ground is good. I’m guessing the other two are for the lights and the stall warning. With the light switch on, I’m getting 12.5 V on one contact and 10 V or so on the other. I had assumed I would get 12 V on both. Is this normal?
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Inoperative Wing Light
- Thread starter Pilotjim77
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First, do you have any kind of a wiring diagram? Do you have separate switches for strobes and nav lights (if the answer is "no" this would be strange. You'd like to turn off the strobes if you're parked right next to someone on the runup ramp, but not the nav lights, if it's dark).
It's a single switch on/off which controls both nav and strobe. There's no option to turn on just the nav lights. I don't recall any separate wiring diagram in the documents, but I'll look again. I've been trying to figure it out using the kit assembly instructions, but no luck so far.
Go Van's web site and scroll down the "Downloads" page to the RV-12 Electrical System Diagrams. Pick the electrical configuration that matches your avionics installation and you will get a complete schematic for the wiring.
https://www.vansaircraft.com/downloads/
Didn't even realize that was on the Vans site. Thanks so much!
