LED Aircraft Landing Light!

davemullenix

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Hi all,

I've been reading these forums for a few months, but I had to register and post today when I got an email from Aircraft Spruce and Specialty advertising a Teledyne LED Aircraft Landing Light!

Here's the URL:

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/teledynelandinglight.php

Assuming it's as bright as an incandescent aircraft landing light, and seeing as how it runs on 10.5 to 30 volts, only draws 30 watts and is regulated for constant brightness, I think somebody could make one heck of a flashlight out of this!

It advertises 165,000 Max Beam Candlepower (MBCP)!

The illustration shows four LEDs in the bulb, but I don't know which ones are used.

They should be available by June.

The only downside I see is the price: $289.00!

But I want one!

Dave
 
those are nice!

i almost took home an osram q4559x halogen landing light that they were throwing out at work, it says on the box, 400 watts at 28volts. i know i wouldnt be able to do much with it, so i left it in the trash.

but this new teledyne lamp looks very possible to work with.

and think of the saving using LED over halogen, i cant tell you how many lamps ive changed. aircraft parts are ridiculously over priced. and most halogen lamps for aviation cost over $100.
 
and think of the saving using LED over halogen, i cant tell you how many lamps ive changed. aircraft parts are ridiculously over priced. and most halogen lamps for aviation cost over $100.

I guess I just thought a landing light would be much much more expensive I was way off, heck I paid $60 just for 2 bulbs for my car.
 
Thanks for the replies and the welcomes everybody.

One note - 30 watts at 12 volts is only 2.5 amps, which is very doable with a 12 volt gell cell.

This has nothing to do with flashlights or LEDs, but speaking of aircraft landing lights ....

I was in the Air Force from 67-71 and I spent a year at Barksdale AFB, near Shreveport, LA, working on B-52 Gs. I was in an electronics shop and we didn't have our own trucks. When we had to take equipment out to a B-52 or back to the shop, we'd catch a ride on one of the International Harvester StepVans that continually circulated around the flight line and shop area.

Somebody left a NiCad battery on one of the trucks once. A BIG NiCad. B-52 sized! Think of the battery in your car and more or less double every dimension and that's how big a NiCad it was. Huge. You could barely lift one. 28 volts and enough current to weld with if you wanted to.

So, of course, the truck driver glommed onto it. They were classified as expendable anyway, so there were no serial numbers or anything to worry about.

Then he (somehow) got hold of a landing light from a KC-135 (the tanker version of the Boeing 707). These were also considered expendable, with no serial numbers or anything to worry about.

And what did he do with them? Well, let's just say you didn't want to be looking at the back of his car when he put the transmission in reverse!

Biggest, brightest backup light you ever dreamed of!
 
:welcome:

I'm wondering which emitters they are using? Can really determine it from the pictures.

rayman
 
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