Glow Wire Help? Please!
05-08-2005, 11:17 PM
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Glow Wire Help? Please!
I am looking to put some glow wire one a plane and a heli. I am looking to build the glow wire into the structure of the plane with translucent covering. The heli is my brothers and I dont know much about them. its a suprise for him.. I am just looking for some insight...like...the do's and dont's of the glow wire installation. any insight ...or....thoughts would be very helpfull..
05-09-2005, 03:54 AM
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RE: Glow Wire Help? Please!
Check www.glowire.com Thats what you are looking for. My experiance with it used internally and covering with transparent covering has proved disappointing. I used it in the fuelage and wings of a Bristol M-1 and a four engine airplane that both had the after fuse and wings covered with transparent yellow monocoat and used the yellow glowire. I was told this was the most intense of the colors.
Unfortunately through the monocoat it is just not very bright and I consider it a failure for that application, Of course I also use removable incandescent color coded orientation lights. Its very difficult to see the yellow glow in flight. I plan to replace with LED strings at some point when I recover.
This is the Quad and you can see the removable orientation lights on the wing tips:
Unfortunately through the monocoat it is just not very bright and I consider it a failure for that application, Of course I also use removable incandescent color coded orientation lights. Its very difficult to see the yellow glow in flight. I plan to replace with LED strings at some point when I recover.
This is the Quad and you can see the removable orientation lights on the wing tips:
