I purchased a couple of these scale lighting systems for use on some projects I am planning to build soon. This is my first foray into navigation lighting, but I can tell you that these systems are fantastic. The lights are bright, but not so bright they look out of place, and it is the only system I found that truly worked like a real lighting system with the colored navlights staying on solid, and white strobes that mount with them doing the flashing, as well as seperately switched landing lights.

http://www.scaleflying.com/product_p/avcp-av001.htm

My question is how do I make these lights switch on and off with one of the spare channels on my receiver. I am using a futaba 7C fasst system.

I know I can set up mechanical linkage with a micro servo, but that seems like it would be complicated and heavy. I was wondering is there some type of switch that can be controlled directly by the receiver without any mechanical linkage. Would a small cheap ESC such as the one below work for this application by wiring it inline in place of the mechanical switch??? Would it be as simple as wirining it in line with the lights, or is there more to programming an ESC for something like this.

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...0A_BRUSHED_ESC

Is there any cheaper easier method that can be used for this purpose.


Thanks