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Old September 14th 06, 08:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Ramy wrote:
Interesting. will these LED lights can also help the more common issue
of visibility during day time?


Well, police cars and motorcycles around here are starting to use them.
I visted a couple websites that sell arrays to be mounted on an auto
sunvisor, for example. They have programmable flash patterns and come
in various colors. The specs were 1/3 to 1/2 amp current draw on the
cigarette lighter plug. But this is for fairly rapid flashing. If we
were to flash every 5-10 seconds, the draw may be reasonable.

-Tom