1975 Mooney M20F lightning uograde

[ArtVandelay]

My Bad.  It does point out that synching strobes might have more of an instantaneous impact than I thought, but I assume that the battery would absorb the peaks ?

Thanks for the correction.

 

It does, but it might cause a pop on your radios, I know of at least one case this occurred.

[powder_hounder]

I know this is an old thread, however I think it's still pertinent.  I am considering replacing my current position lights with the Whelen Orion650/500 position & anti-collision combo LED's (OR6501G/R and OR500).  I saw discussion here about running the sync wire to get the acl's to flash in unison, but I didn't see discussion about wiring the acl's flashers to a switch in the panel to disable the flashers for IFR flying.  Is this something that others have done, or do you just use the existing position light switch and turn off the position lights and acl's in IFR?

[Marauder]

1 minute ago, powder_hounder said:

I know this is an old thread, however I think it's still pertinent.  I am considering replacing my current position lights with the Whelen Orion650/500 position & anti-collision combo LED's (OR6501G/R and OR500).  I saw discussion here about running the sync wire to get the acl's to flash in unison, but I didn't see discussion about wiring the acl's flashers to a switch in the panel to disable the flashers for IFR flying.  Is this something that others have done, or do you just use the existing position light switch and turn off the position lights and acl's in IFR?

I have separate switches for the Nav, strobes and beacon. In the clouds, I will turn off the strobes. Don't you have separate switches?

[cmkep]

I have two switches, Nav and anti collision( strobe or rotating beacon) I removed both my old Strobe ( on top) and rotating beacon(on the belly) when I added my Orion 650/500. I think the Strobe and rotating beacon were on the same circuit before. New wires were run to the wing tips. The new wires were pulled through the wing by the old wires.

[powder_hounder]

I too have standalone strobes, white on bottom of fuse and red on top and both are wired to one switch in the panel. There's also a power supply in the tail to power them.The position lights are wired to a different switch in the panel.

Perhaps what I should do is rewire the current strobe switch for just the Orion acl's and keep the Orion position lights on the same switch. I like the idea of pulling new wires using the old wires, should save some time snaking wires through the wing ribs.

 

Thanks guys.

Brian