"Morgans" wrote in message ...
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: "Richard Riley" wrote
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: No, can't run wig wags with HID. It takes them several seconds to
: warm up, like sodium street lights.
:
: I like to tinker.
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: The thought occurred to me, that you could take two of those self contained
: HID helmet and handlebar lights that the original question was about, and
: make them fold down out of the bottom of the wing, like some of the old
: landing lights. They also could be behind a molded plexi leading edge
: cover, if you wanted to do it that way.
:
: The extra trick I had in mind, that would give a flashing recognition light
: effect, would be to have them driven by something like a windshield wiper
: motor, hooked to a cable going to each wingtip, oscillating them back and
: forth through about 30 degrees each side of center, with the park setting of
: the wiper gearbox aiming the lights straight ahead for landing.
:
: What do you think? Ever seen anything like that done before?
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: Jim in NC
:

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