XeVision HID Landing trouble

[marcusku]

My landing light has now stopped working.  At first it was intermittent but now seems to be completely dead.   I called the manufacturer they recommended checking the wiring first.  I measured 24V at the input of the ballast.  He did say it's better to put a load on the input wires to better determine if the incoming power is good as sometimes you can see 24V but still have a bad connection but I didn't have a good way of doing that.  I'm not completely sure of the model, on the ballast it looks to be XV1A-50.

It's temping to put it back to stock and go with a LED unit instead of try and troubleshoot this setup.  Sounds like neither the ballast or the lamp are particularly cheap.  To go back to stock though would require rewiring a connector for the connection between the cowling and the firewall.  

Anyone have experience with this unit?  Is it worth fixing?  I've always thought the light output was "ok" having nothing to compare to.  I'm sure back in the day it was the way to go but maybe not anymore?

[jetdriven]

The 50W HID has 750k candlepower. That’s many multiples of what LED lights put out. Replace the Ballast for 110$ and roll on. 
lamps are cheap. Amazon. 

[KB4]

Switch to LED and leave the Landing Lights ON all the time, who wouldn't want to BE SEEN more easily?  There is value in the safety aspect of leaving the Landing Light ON always, especially for me, I'm in busy airspace. I added about 5 lbs to my useful load removing all the power supplies. The wingtip LED's are about 100 times brighter then OEM and suck up much less power.

LED Landing light not crazy bright, it is sufficient to illuminate the Rnwy at night for me, added safety, and never replace made it a no brainer decision.