High Density LED Flexible Strip Landing Lights - Parkfun Fusion

Fitted flexible strip LED lights to my wings and tail as landing/visibility lighting and also the Lumifly Lighting system as navigation lights. All from Hobbyking.

Parts we used:
Turnigy High Density R/C LED Flexible Strip-White
Lumifly Lighting system FAA Configurable

Installing lights and carbon rod in fuse

I use the Turnigy R/C LED lightingsystem which is found here.

The yellow thing is the controller board for the nav lights. I've installed the two MPX plugs for the right side fuse. One plug is for the lights and the other is for servos.

Red flashing nav light in front.

MPX plug on the outside.

Installed the carbon rod in the boom.

I've positioned the vertical fin where it's supposed to be. The flashing red nav light is on top of the fin. The wires go through the carbon rod.

Landing lights in wings

The Turnigy High Density LED strips are perfectly suited for landing lights. You get one meter in the box and you can cut them every three lights.

I use 6 LEDs in each wing. They run on 12v which is great since I'm using a 3S LiPo in the plane.

I glued the foam back that I cut away to fit the lights. Now afterwards I don't think it looks that good. I'll come up with another plan in the future.

Soldering the 6 wires (2 nav light, 2 white strobe, 2 landing LED) to the MPX plug for easy attachment of the wings.

Shrink tubed and done.

Navigation lights in wings



I bought the Turnigy LED navigation lights. They have the correct number of LEDs and colors: one green (nav, right wing), one red (nav, left wing), two white strobes (wings, facing backwards), two flashing red (top of vertical fin, bottom of fuselage in front). The lights are controlled by a little PCB which is really light.

They connect to any free channel and are always on. In the kit is also two white landing lights, but since I'm going to use LED strips for that which are much more bright, I didn't use them.



I used hot glue to secure the LEDs. Unfortunately i had to redo this since the light wasn't that visible from the front. Now both lights are on the wing tip.

I'm using my metal ruler when i do the trenches for the cables. After cutting the trench with the knife, I use tweezers to peel the foam away.

There you go, fitted and ready.