has anyone scratch built a good nav lighting system that can be used on a parkflyer (graupner monsun with a brushless motor 1:1 power:weight ratio)? what kind of LED's/lights did you use? did you get power from the receiver or a separate battery? how should i wire the setup? i would want wing lights, a tail light, and maybe landing lights. i want to stay as light as possible as i am flying a parkflyer. oh wait as i am writing this i just remembered that i would need to run thw wires through the wings, but i dont want to strip the covering. how should i do this? thanks in advance

I did. I went to radio shack. I got super bright white, blue, and red plus assorted packs. Also I got thin wire, and a 2 cell aa battery holder. Make sure you don't burn anything with the solder gun, the solder will go right through the foam. Good Luck!

i have a balsa plane. dou you know how i should route the wires without stripping the covering? also, how did you wire the LEDs (series/parallel)?
thanks

R/C related LED Info and Resistor Calculator: http://www.rc-cam.com/led_info.htm

Nav-Lights Project (for those that have substantial electronics experience): http://www.rc-cam.com/navlight.htm

your website is great! i like the nav light system, but unfortunatley i don't have a pic programmer and dont plan on spending $200 for one that i will only use once. thanks anyway. those other projects might come in handy

When building another balsa plane just put the wires in it. I can't think of a way you can do it now. Try doing some searches on google or on here. I've found many different solutions... you just have to look.

Check this out....

A fully user-programmable LED FLasher/Sequencer.. programmable via a PC-based program using your 9-pin COM port. Two models, the "Pro-Flash" (8 channels) and the "Mini-Flash" (4 channels)

http://www.diyrc.com/RC-14b.html



http://www.diyrc.com/RC-14c.html