PA-28-140 Cherokee advice

On 24 Aug 2006 20:27:50 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:
The solution is wing landing lights, which I've added to our Cherokee.
Put a couple of Q4509s out there and the taxiways look like broad
daylight -- and you look like a DC-9 on final approach...

My solution for taxiing around those dark airports at night is a
750,000 candlepower handheld 12VDC light that I can plug into the
lighter port... I just slide back my canopy during the rollout after
landing and stick my hand with the light outside so that it won't
reflect off my windshield...

Careful the 750,000 candlepower light doesn't over-load the
cigarette lighter, they are not a high amperage circuit.


"Grumman-581" wrote
in message
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| On 24 Aug 2006 20:27:50 -0700, "Jay Honeck"

| wrote:
| The solution is wing landing lights, which I've added to
our Cherokee.
| Put a couple of Q4509s out there and the taxiways look
like broad
| daylight -- and you look like a DC-9 on final
approach...
|
| My solution for taxiing around those dark airports at
night is a
| 750,000 candlepower handheld 12VDC light that I can plug
into the
| lighter port... I just slide back my canopy during the
rollout after
| landing and stick my hand with the light outside so that
it won't
| reflect off my windshield...

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:20:04 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:
Careful the 750,000 candlepower light doesn't over-load the
cigarette lighter, they are not a high amperage circuit.

I haven't had a problem with it yet and I've been doing it for quite a
few years now... Regardless, I also have an 8Ah battery pack that I
built that has a lighter plug on it also... I usually use it to power
my PDA w/GPS so that I'm not completely dependent upon the internal
batteries in it... Sometimes I'll also use it to power my laptop, but
considering the fact that the laptop probably takes 50W, the 8Ah
battery would give me less than 2 hours of full power use out of it...
If I leave the display on the laptop closed except when I need to
refer to the moving map on it, I suspect that it will last quite a bit
longer... All in all, I tend to prefer not to leave these plugged into
the aircraft's lighter port...