WAT Orion LED sync wire

[Rmnpilot]

All-

I own a Mooney Bravo  and have recently installed the WAT Orion LED nav/strobe lights. We didn’t connect the sync wire as it seemed to be staying synced up, but have noticed it goes out of sync after a bit.  Has anyone done the sync wire?  Is it a matter of pulling inspection panels and the belly panels or interior panels as well?   Trying to gauge if this is something my A&P and I can do in a morning or more involved.   

Ryan

[philiplane]

The easy way to install the LED's is to use the existing three conductor strobe wire. One will be the sync wire, one will be strobe power, and the third is not used. You use the existing nav light wire for the new LED nav light function. You make the strobe power and sync connections at the site of the removed strobe power supply.

Edited February 4, 2023 by philiplane

[kortopates]

What Phillip said except for the tail. My tail only had a strobe light because of the white nav lights in the rear of the wing tips. So i had to pull both a nav light and and synch wire from up front to the tail, since the Orion tail lights has both Nav and strobe together. i think i ended up pulling a 4 conductor wire.
At least now my rear white wing tip lights are redundant.


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[Rmnpilot]

I will take a look tomorrow to see how it was wired.   Thank you for your help!

[carusoam]

Don’T forget…

We have a really knowledgable Whelen guy around here… @OSUAV8TER

1) To stay Synced… a sync wire is going to be needed… they need to communicate status with each other…

2) If you had synced strobes before… a sync wire is probably still there…

3) If you have the fancy wing tips, with a rear facing white light… your tail strobe may only be a strobe, with no position light…

4) synced strobes look fancy…

5) non-synced strobes are better at being seen by other pilots…

 

Best regards,

-a-

[jetdriven]

I think those planes have a Whelen triple power supply located on the aft Side of the rear cabin bulkhead. The sync is done on the box. As others said you can repurpose those wires for strobe and sync. But the tail needs another conductor for the nav portion. It looks great when done. 

[mhrivnak]

For wing tips, my 1990 J had four conductors: nav power, nav ground, strobe power, strobe ground.

With the LED fixture, you only need one ground wire, so we repurposed the other ground as a sync wire.

For the tail we ran two new conductors to be NAV power and sync.

[Rmnpilot]

27 minutes ago, mhrivnak said:

For wing tips, my 1990 J had four conductors: nav power, nav ground, strobe power, strobe ground.

With the LED fixture, you only need one ground wire, so we repurposed the other ground as a sync wire.

For the tail we ran two new conductors to be NAV power and sync.

I assume you had to disconnect where the wire was grounded.  Was this behind the panel?  

[mhrivnak]

6 hours ago, Rmnpilot said:

I assume you had to disconnect where the wire was grounded.  Was this behind the panel?  

Correct. I don't recall exactly where they terminated, but probably in one of the big barrel connectors that has nothing but grounds.