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LarryRosen(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: Interior Lighting



I am closing up the fuselage floors (hoping I have left enough access

for electrical runs) and I started thinking about interior lighting.

To light the baggage area is anyone installing lighting in either the

rear baggage door close out panel or in the rear seat bulkhead?

How about map lights for the rear passengers in the bulkhead?

What are some sources for interior lights?

Larry Rosen

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Tdawson(at)avidyne.com
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: Interior Lighting



eBay or automotive supply houses have a variety of LED-type lights these days. That's probably your best bet - low current and long life . . .

TDT

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rick.conti(at)boeing.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:51 am Post subject: Interior Lighting



I found a "unique" baggage compartment light. I installed a 30" tube

inside the cross brace. Notice when you open the baggage door all the

way you have access to the open end of the cross brace. The lights come

with mounting brackets. The brackets weren't easy to install, but it

can be done. I bought the tube at an automotive store. It's one of

those lights you attach to the chassis of your car. They come in

different colors, I selected blue. I installed a small rocker switch on

the cross brace near the door. The blue light lights the area great and

it doesn't not impair your night vision.

Thank You

Rick Conti

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cell: 571-215-6134

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ichelva(at)netspace.net.a
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject: Interior Lighting



Great idea, Rick.

However - the light needs to be red to preserve night vision. This is

because rods (night-vision retinal photoreceptors) have their maximum

sensitivity in the blue part of the spectrum, although this is perceived in

"black & white". Night vision adaptation takes >30min to acquire, and

milliseconds to lose if exposed again to a bright light. Red light doesn't

activate the rods very much, while allowing the red cones (bright light

photoreceptors) to function.

So what you wrote was perfectly correct : "blue light doesn't not impair

night vision" (doesn't not = does)

Indran Chelvanayagam

I found a "unique" baggage compartment light. I installed a 30" tube inside

the cross brace. Notice when you open the baggage door all the way you have

access to the open end of the cross brace. The lights come with mounting

brackets. The brackets weren't easy to install, but it can be done. I

bought the tube at an automotive store. It's one of those lights you attach

to the chassis of your car. They come in different colors, I selected blue.

I installed a small rocker switch on the cross brace near the door. The

blue light lights the area great and it doesn't not impair your night

vision.

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dlm46007(at)cox.net
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject: Interior Lighting



Anyone using the "ice blue" flatlight capacitance lighting system? Same

light is used in military and transport aircraft.

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LloydDR(at)wernerco.com
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: Interior Lighting



The military uses blue in all of the combat spaces as this does not

effect night vision and still lets you distinguish warning lights in

color. They used to use red but too many warning lights were being

missed. This is not to say it is a really bright light, but more of a

bedroom night light intensity. This makes the transition from the bridge

to combat and back again safer without destroying night vision.

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lwalters2(at)cfl.rr.com
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: Interior Lighting



And red lights also make the magenta color disappear from your charts

..... take a look at just how much info is printed in magenta!

Linn

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Lloyd, Daniel R. wrote:

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The military uses blue in all of the combat spaces as this does not

effect night vision and still lets you distinguish warning lights in

color. They used to use red but too many warning lights were being

missed. This is not to say it is a really bright light, but more of a

bedroom night light intensity. This makes the transition from the bridge

to combat and back again safer without destroying night vision.

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armywrights(at)adelphia.n
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject: Interior Lighting



Agree wholeheartedly. Give me the bluish-white of a dim LED light over red

any day. Army aviation teaches that after being in a red-light flooded

environment to night adapt, you still need at least another 5 minutes in the

"real" dark to be fully night adapted. You oughta try it some time so you

know just how much your color perception is off for a period after leaving

the red and walking outside, not to mention trying to use green-colored NVGs

right then too.

So for as long as I'll have my night-adapted eyes looking in the baggage

compartment, I'll take the blue/white. My eyes'll be fully back to "night

mode" by the time I get to the taxi checklist.

Rob

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Tdawson(at)avidyne.com
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: Interior Lighting



Do people still use paper charts? : )

TDT

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