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

Post a video of you can, I'll bet that looks cool at night or in the dusk.

I would love to if only I had a video camera :-(

I can tell you it looks awesome in low light levels. So much so that my wife was impressed by it, and that takes some doing :-) I cant help thinking that these lights will help remove any doubt about the orientation of a helicopter too.

I will make another post when I have had a chance to fly them in daylight unless someone else beats me to it. The weather here in the UK is currently varying from heavy snow to sleet and rain and the last time I looked my flying field was still flooded from the last soaking it got.

I have seen a video of these lights in operation, but I could not find it on the internet when I tried to locate it just now. I did find the unit quite a bit cheaper than I paid for it (damn) here:

http://www.heliguy.com/Extras/LiPo-B...gation-Lights/

The picture shows how the unit comes, although mine did not have the extra LED and lead shown in this picture. I wonder what colour that one is?

Best wishes,

Dave


Addendum:

Just driven past my flying field and the water is now frozen into an ice rink - it looks very pretty but I would need a set of climbing crampons to negotiate it. The weather is gorgeous though, the sun is shining, it's warmed up a lot and it is windless - shame about the field.

I have the Xtreme Strobe Lights and Alarm on a 450 scale 500E.
Have to say for the money they are well worth it... £11.73 now from your favourite Yorkshire heli shop.

White solid beam light is in the nose, red, green and yellow as per Dave's Titan.

Get some better night pics when the ground conditions improve and it's not chucking it down.