I decided to take a closer look at the FlyLEDs lighting kit that I had ordered over the summer, just to verify how it would fit into the leading edge landing light bays. The FlyLEDs circuit board has two mounting holes that are 5" apart. It looks like I will need to either: (1) drill and mount my own nutplates onto the existing W-00017 mount bracket, or (2) order the W-00016B mount and add my own holes since it wasn't designed to fit the 5" spacing required by the FlyLEDs circuit board, or (3) make my own mounting bracket inspired by W-00016B. Using the W-00016B mount, or one like it, would provide some added benefit of being able to adjust the up/down tilt of the landing lights if I ever needed to.

With the FlyLEDs kit already out, I decided to spend a little time assembling and soldering the circuit boards together. The instructions that came with it were pretty nicely written and easy to follow. I also trimmed down the wing tip position+strobe light circuit boards to fit my actual wingtips by using the benchtop belt grinder. In the end, I now have the two combo landing+taxi light assemblies, and the two boards for each of the left+right position+strobe assemblies.

I will mention that even though FlyLEDs says to use the thermal paste very sparingly, I feel that they still ship way too little paste in their kits. Fortunately, I had some extra computer CPU thermal paste in a drawer that I was able to use when I ran out of the supplied stuff.

What's next? I should probably test these boards now that I have them assembled. I might also work on assembling their main controller board.