stealth916
Veteran
Location: Rocklin, CA
| You can see movies of the lights on helis at the Curtek website. It is powered by the 4-in-1 unit. It does not affect flight time at all - it uses very, very little power. This is a very complete set with 28" wires for the lights, and the wires are very very small, but durable. It came with more lights than needed for a simple micro heli. It also has modes for landing lights, solid nav lights, as well as the strobing anti collision lights. You would really only want one or the other. Maybe they will consider a cheaper two light set with just anti colision strobes for small helis. We should email them.
You could further lighten the LED controller by using a lighter wire harness to the Rx, and also by removing (desoldering) the pin header for the LEDs, and soldering your LED wires directly. Also shortening the LED wires to length will make them less than 1.6 grams each, and removing the connector if you solder direct will further lighten them.
They are visible in daylight from 3-6 feet - but not really in flight. However at dawn or dusk - they are very bright even 150+ feet away.
It is a very cool effect, and the neighbors are watching the heli again after having become very jaded by hundreds of heli flights. |
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