bob62

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Will a 1.5 led light work directly off of the battery or does it need something else to make it light

Thanks Bob

exeter_acres

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most LED's (with lots of exceptions...) are 3V

so it depends on the battery.....
if you hook a single LED to a 12v battery... it will go poof....

you can always hook LED's in series.. or you need a resistor in the setup....

JohnBuckner

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If the purpose is for night flying you may want to give them a call at Common Sense RC:

http://commonsenserc.com/

Its not in their web site just yet but I found them at the industry show in Las Vegas some weeks back and the have fantastic Led strips up to five feet long and can be cut or splice easily the strips are an adhesive backed printed circuit and the led's are about an inch and apart.

There is also and adapter that plugs right into the strip and also plugs directly to the balance plug and most any three cell Lipo pack.

I have a bunch coming for the fellows as i am putting on a club rc auction to happen late in the afternoon and a chili cook for the late day flyers then a night fly.

John

huck1199

The LED strips are a bunch of triplets (3 in series) in parallel. I power them with 2 cell lipos or A123. For a single LED you will need to use a dropping resistor to get to 1.5 to 2.0 volts. At 3.0 volts they may not last too long.

RCKen

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http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/bl-214f.html

Try looking at these LED's. Will work on 6-12v. The dropping resister is already installed on the LED

Ken

Gray Beard

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Good site on the lights Ken. I just tried to set up landing lights in two builds, bought the high voltage lights and they still burnt out before I could get them set up. When I told a friend my problem he went to work testing out different resistors with different battery packs and came up with the answer. Too late for what i wanted to do but now I'm thinking of having some LEDs inside the instrument panels to come on when power is switched on. It's just a for fun thing and rolling through my mind.
Gene

JohnBuckner

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Here are some photos of the product from Common Sense RC, just made these tonight.

Yes these are the three light sections as mentioned by Hulk1199 and between each section you can see the cut line in the close up. At every cut line there are four solder dots for doing any kind of wiring you may require.

The adhesive on the back is 3M brand so may be expected to work reasonalbly well.

frets24

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If it's a landing light you're looking for this is a great little light. I get mine at Lowe's big box...Home Depot doesn't seem to want to carry them. About $7.00 each and worth every penny! Or you can go to Nite-ize web site. These are REALLY brite and a pair of AA's batts last for 3 days+ continuous...I left my upgraded minimag lite on in my workshop and didn't go back in for that long...still using the same batts

In the plane a pair of AAA's works great. comes with the reflector and you can take the LED/PCB out of the aluminium disk to save a bit of size and a 1/4oz. Perfect for 1/7 and up birds. Use clear acrylic paint on your wingtip lenses and these do well in that application as well. The best part about these lights is that without the reflector they are truely 180x360 visible with NO fade....that's like if you cut a sphere in half...not like some of these other lights that have a 45* visibility cone.

Light, packaging, and some install pics NOTE!!! make sure you get the one with a single LED...there are still some pakages that have an older style 3LED upgrade bulb set. TIP; get a Futaba or JR/Spektrum servo extensin, take the socket end connectors out of the plastic cover/sleeve, put a piece of shrink tubing over the sockets, and plug the LED legs into the connector. LEDs are polarity sensitive, if it doesn't light; swap the legs