Dgamble
Well Known Member
I just got around to adding the lighting kit to my Classic RV-12 (serial #284) a few weeks ago, and installed the cockpit light yesterday. I have heard that it isn't particularly effective, but having bought it I thought I might as well install it.
Because I didn't buy the lighting kit 8 or 9 years ago when I was building, so I don't have a Chapter 40 from that era. The current chapter 40 references YLW/PRP and YEL/GRN wires, which my plane does not have. What it does have is a pair of white wires of the appropriate length and position to reach up through the rollbar to the cockpit light position. I checked them with a multimeter and they responded to the Nav/Strobe switch.
That leads me to believe that they are the wires intended to power the cockpit light, but they only indicated 5V on the meter.
The David Hoffman Mod-1 lights are specified on their web site thusly:
MOD-1 COCKPIT LIGHTS
-SPECIFICATION-
VOLTS AMPS WATTS
14 0.012 0.168
Would it make sense to track down the source of the B-179 wire (going from memory that the B-179 was the POS wire) and shift it over to a spot where it can get 12V?
I am assuming more voltage means more light from an LED, but I'm not anywhere near sure that that is the case.
Because I didn't buy the lighting kit 8 or 9 years ago when I was building, so I don't have a Chapter 40 from that era. The current chapter 40 references YLW/PRP and YEL/GRN wires, which my plane does not have. What it does have is a pair of white wires of the appropriate length and position to reach up through the rollbar to the cockpit light position. I checked them with a multimeter and they responded to the Nav/Strobe switch.
That leads me to believe that they are the wires intended to power the cockpit light, but they only indicated 5V on the meter.
The David Hoffman Mod-1 lights are specified on their web site thusly:
MOD-1 COCKPIT LIGHTS
-SPECIFICATION-
VOLTS AMPS WATTS
14 0.012 0.168
Would it make sense to track down the source of the B-179 wire (going from memory that the B-179 was the POS wire) and shift it over to a spot where it can get 12V?
I am assuming more voltage means more light from an LED, but I'm not anywhere near sure that that is the case.