Heli Sclae lighting

[Grandpa]

Hi gents,

I put this post in the old farts section because that is where I really belong but I thought you guys might also have some good suggestionss. Working on a 450 size EC 135 scale project. In your experience what has been the best and easiest install lighting system? I would like single front landing/search light, belly and tail fin strobes and nav lights. With my old eyes, brighter is better.

Thanks,
Eric

[Elgyn]

Not to answer your question with a question but have you asked the scale guys what they would do or use?

[kaos]

this may be the easiest thing for your nav lights. it has jumper you can use them as constant on or controlled by a ch signal.
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...idproduct=6811

it can be daisy chained and work off your Rx power to add more lights on. just make sure your BEC has enough amp output to power the lights(but led really don't draw a whole lot of power unless you chain too many of them) and the Rx.
the search and landing ligth if you use one or two 5010 led is probably bright enough.
and if you want to separately control the on/off of your search/landing light and the nav light, you can add this switch for that.
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...idproduct=8833

this can hold up to 10A of current draw directly from lipo for a really big bright search/landing light.