Hi Guy's,

I don't know if you have seen the new Xtreme Strobe Lights & Alarm, but if you haven't here is how I fixed a set to my Mini-Titan E325 last night.

As can be seen from the photographs, especially the tail fin, I used pieces of black heat shrink tubing so it gripped the LED lens flange and covered the already heat shrunk connections of the wiring loom. The LED's were then fixed in place using a dab of medium BSI Cyano adhesive. Where I placed them allows for total freedom to remove the cockpit canopy.

The high intensity front light (solid beam) was secured to the aerial tube which is supplied with the E325 kit, again using heat shrink tubing. As I am operating a Spektrum AR6100e receiver this item was redundant until now. I shortened the tube after positioning the LED where I wanted it to be.

The Xtreme unit is really a nice bit of kit, it is light in weight, small, well made and when the Li-Po cell pack voltage falls below a user set limit of between 3 to 4 volts the LED's stop flashing and go solid in colour indicating it is time to land - neat eh! This voltage is set by adjusting a potentiometer visible on the casing. It can be used with both 2S and 3S packs (selectable via jumper visible in the first picture). Power for the unit is taken from the Li-Po balancer plug (JST-xh) and it comes with both 2S and 3S connectors.

My LEDS are arranged thus - flashing Green (starboard), flashing Red (port) and flashing yellow (tail light). Strictly speaking the tail light should be white and a red anti-collision strobe could also be fitted on top of the fuselage. This unit does not have that facility but I am not complaining. For the £12 I paid for it I am extremely happy with it.


Happy landings,

Dave