I thought the Skycraft's STC required the removal of the nose light.. I
would give them a call. Just seems like we went over this on the last
install we did but it might have been a small ALT.

Jon Becker

Jay Honeck wrote:
I'm in the midst of having these lights installed, (they are the
cut-in-the-leading-edge landing lights) and we come to a fork in the
road
with regards to the wiring.

The kit comes with a split L/R on/off switch, and two 10 amp circuit
breakers. This means that my existing landing light switch stays in
the
panel, controlling the nose light only, while this new switch has to
go in
the panel somewhere, separately controlling EACH wing light.

IMHO, this is stupid. Why would I *ever* want to turn on, for
example, only
the left landing light? My idea is to replace the existing landing
light
switch with the new split switch, and put the nose light on the left
half,
while putting BOTH wing lights on the right half of the switch.
(This
would require a 20 amp breaker on the right half of the circuit,
instead of
the 10 amp that is supplied.)

My A&P says Skycraft's STC doesn't cover that option, and he would
have to
get a field approval, blah, blah, blah. His idea is to remove my
pitot
heat switch from the little "bank" of switches on my 235, and install
the
new split landing light switch in its place. This will put it right
next to
the existing nose light switch, so turning on the landing light(s)
will be
almost as simple as it is now (or would be with my idea).

The pitot heat switch would then be relocated in the plane,
somewhere.

This is obviously better than installing the landing light switch in
some
awkward place, but it still seems goofy to me.

What do you guys think? Anyone ever installed these things? What
did you
do with the switches?

Thanks!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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