Advice on landing lights?

"Vaughn" wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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This is for a HID with the starting ballast and power supply built into
the bulb, so you don't have any expensive power supply to buy, right? If
you can hook a 12 volt line to the bulb, and take off, then that sounds
like a bargain. (if that is all you need)

Since you must effectively buy a brand new ballast and power supply
every time you need a new bulb, it somehow seems (to me at least) to fail
the "bargain" test.

For a bulb with no filament to break, with a expected "in use" burnout time
of 2,000 hours, it is unlikely you will ever need to replace the bulk, and
possibly the next dozen owners of the plane, as well.
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Jim in NC