Title: Landing lights - Duckworks HID just inside wingtips
We decided to install Duckworks HID landing lights in the leading edge of each wing just inside the wingtips. We chose the Duckworks system although they never had anyone install their system in a GlaStar or Sportsman, only RVs. So we had to fit the Duckworks unit to the unique shape of our leading edge. Additionally, we had an interesting engineering problem of how to get the left and right power packs mounted. We think we came up with an ingenious way to accomplish this as you see below. In addition to the mounting bracket which we fitted inside the wing, we had to custom make the outside lens. We bent this using clear acrylic plastic in the same shape as the aluminum nose skin. By the way, we hope the heat produced by the HID bulbs will not damage the lens. Another idea we picked up from the Glasair-Onners.org online forum was to insert an HD polyethylene 1/2" tube through each wing as a conduit to carry wiring out to the nav, strobe and landing lights.


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