Y'know, you guys, there's a new combination wingtip position light/strobe assembly
from Aveo Engineering that is fully self-contained (requiring no separate
power supply). Someone asked me today at the Cloverdale Quality Sport Plane Fly-In
how I got to the strobe power supply on my 601, and I said drill out the
rivets. Which really is no big deal, except that they're painted.
But I plan to install the Aveo units, as they make the wingtip issue moot. And
since they're designed around very high intensity LEDs driven by on board circuitry,
they draw peanuts for current. I was actually running around Oshkosh with
a prototype, showing various manufacturers the unit and driving it fully with
a 9V transistor radio battery.
It was, by far, the coolest thing I saw at the show. A bit pricy at $660 for a
pair, but man! How they simplify installation with no further maintenance required!
Rick Lindstrom
N42KP / Corvair
-----Original Message-----
>From: Ronald Steele <rsteele@rjsit.com>
>Sent: Oct 11, 2008 7:28 PM
>To: zenith-list@matronics.com
>Subject: Re: Fiberglass wing tip installation
>
>On a related note, has anyone used nut plates to attach the tips? I'm
>thinking this would allow access to strobe power supplies. Are there
>any special requirements for attaching nut plates to fiberglass?
>
>Ron
