busyflyin
Senior Heliman
Location: Owosso, MI USA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | You are right, the RAM site is not adequate and I shared my feelings with them about it but unfortunately they are stuck in their ways and have no plans to improve. I've done a bunch of research on this.. nothing conclusive, but I have an opinion that I will share; LED lights are relatively inexpensive in their raw form of lights, wires, resistors, etc. Many vendors such as Lazertoyz & Maxlights offer packages that do a good job.. I've purchased from both Agusta and MD530. This time I went to www.diyrc.com and bought the mini-flash and single LEDs which I am assembling into a harness for the project. The mini-flash is a 4 channel programable flasher that allows you and your PC to program it any way you want; to flash in any pattern, and is controllable from your TX. Each of the 4 channels has two ports/outputs so you can plug in 8 series of lights. More if you wire them in parallel. The mini-flash with the programing cable was $45. I spent $100 for the whole package but bought plenty of lights for future projects. Also available from other vendors are a number of RC switches that allow you to turn lights on/off from your TX. My point is that many scale builders overlook the opportunity to do the lights themselves and customize them for exactly what they want for the same or less cost than fully assembled systems. Both light sets that I purchased were excellent, but I've gotten to the point where I would rather DIY and save the money to buy servos/etc, and have the experience of doing it myself. That is half the fun for me as a scale builder/flier. My advise is that if you like to DIY, do the lights yourself, get a customized system, and the cost will be no more (or less) than a purchased system. In my research, most LEDs are generally the same with a couple of vendors selling brighter white LEDs. One vendor in the Detroit, MI area offers an ultra bright system but it is very expensive. That is my 2C worth and I didn't mean to offend any of the LED vendors.. just another option.
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