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Hi-Power Lighting System LHC140 Series The LHC Hi-Power lighting system is a bright, compact and 'plug and play' scale lighting system that can connect directly to your receiver and can be installed with a few simple tools to add very bright and realistic scale lighting to your model. It features Luxeon LED lamps which include 2 Red beacons, 2 White strobes, 1 Red and 1 Green navigation light. The lighting system includes expansion connectors for the optional Hi-Power landing light kit and will operate from power sources ranging from 4.8v to 9.0volts. LHC140  LHC Hi-Power Scale Lighting System  $80.00  LHC141  LHC Hi-Power Scale Landing Light Kit

Hi-Power Scale Luxeon LED Lighting System

While the single servo lead can connect the lighting module to your receiver, it is our recommendation that a separate battery be used for this Hi-Power lighting system due to the high load it places on your receiver battery. The included servo lead will fit most Futaba, JR, and JR compatible radio systems, but if you are using non-standard equipment, alway verify the correct polarity in the servo connectors before applying power to the system. The Hi-Power system consumes a lot of power and can severly reduce your flight time on your model. If can be safely used with your receiver but you need to make sure that the receiver's failsafe settings are disabled. Do not look directly into the lamps when they are turned on when you are close to the model.

One included switch turns the standard 6 LEDs on and off, while the second switch allows the optional Hi-Power landing lights to be switched on and off independently. The Red and Green navigation Luxeon LEDs which remain solid and do not flash have heat sinks already installed and need addition work be mounted to your fuselage. The heat sink installed has been throughly tested to dissipate the heat generated by these Luxeon LEDs and will avoid buring out the lamps. Do not leave the lighting system turned on for more than 1 hour at a time with at least 15 minutes between flights to allow the Luxeon LEDs to cool. The Red and White strobe Luxeon LEDs do not have heat sinks installed and should never be connected to solid or non-flashing modes without additional heat sinks added. The lighting module is not water or fuel proof and should be mounted away from heat, moisure and vibration.

Hi-Power Lighting System turned on, without the landing light module.

The Hi-Power lighting system uses high intensity Luxeon LEDs for each lamp which makes installing the system more complicated because each should have some form of a heat sink installed. While this Hi-Power lighting system will operate without heat sinks on its flashing lamps, the maximum time limit for the system is 1 hour. Long usage will burn out the lamps. The Hi-Power system includes two mechanical switches which are straight on-off switches for the light system. One switch controls the standard lights on the system, while the other allows the optional landing light kit to be switched on or off independently of the main navigation lights.

If you choose to rely on the receiver battery for your Hi-Power lighting system, it is required to check your receiver battery before each flight using an expanded scale voltmeter (which simulates a constant load on your battery) and use one of the onboard battery monitors to give you a visual indication of remaining battery power. Combining the lighting system and an onboard battery monitor is still safe, but you still should pay closer attention to the duration of each flight and receiver batteries should be changed more often.

Radio systems that have a failsafe setting which allows a preset positioning of the servos to be triggered in the event that there is a signal loss to the reciever must be disabled with this Hi-Power lighting system. The high power draw from the system will trigger the failsafe prematurely. This almost exclusively applies to model airplanes and it should be obvious, but installing any scale lighting in your model does not mean that you can fly at night. Your lighting system gives you another area that you can detail your scale helicopter closer to its full scale big brother.

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