Flyleds is proud to release our newest product, the Mach 2 wingtip lights.
We've sold a whole lot of our very popular The Works kits since they launched back in 2018. Where The Works kit is a DIY soldering project, the Flyleds Mach 2 lights are a complete module that essentially just "drops in" to Van's wingtip light bays and under the clear lens. The light modules are assembled for you, as are the circuit boards for the nav/position and strobe lights.
We supply a mounting bracket that is also used as your cutting template. Mark out and cut the hole, rivet the bracket to the wingtip, screw the lights in, enjoy a beverage. You'll spend more time cleaning up than you will doing the actual fiberglass work to install these!
At launch our first option suits the RV-10 and RV-14A, which share the same wingtips. Building a tail dragger? We haven't forgotten about you! In the next month or so we will have a variation to suit the RV-14. Like our other tail dragger specific lights, this will include a tilted taxi light on each module, giving you a whole lot of light correctly aimed for landings, and then light correctly aimed for taxiing on both sides of the aircraft when the tail is on the ground.
Separately we are working on a model to suit the current style W-715-1 wingtips found on the RV-7 and -8. This will suit both nose wheelers and tail draggers in the one unit. Coming soon!
At this point we will supply the Mach 2 lights in knocked down form, taking you about ten minutes to assemble them with a single screwdriver. Shipping them this way halves the volume, saving you $$. The housings are made for us on industrial Fused Deposition Modeling machines and come in Henry Ford black only, so knock down form makes it very easy for you to paint them as well.
Do you have an RV-6, -7 or -8 with the earlier W-715 "Batwing" wingtips? Sorry, these lights aren't for you, but The Works kit is. RV-9? Same answer. These have light bays that are smaller again and we just can't make the Mach 2 lights any smaller!
The Flyleds The Essentials and The Works kit are operated using a central controller board, in much the same way as the old xenon strobe systems has a central power supply. Instead the Mach 2 lights are fully self contained, just needing power and ground to operate. Like other LED strobe products on the market, there is a sync wire that runs between the wings and tail light that will allow the Master unit on the pilot's wing to sync the strobes on the right wing as well as the matching tail strobe.
The Mach 2 lights can even sync a Van's (Aeroleds) tail light if you've already bought one with your tail kit.
We supply short wiring harness tails with a 6 pin plug that clicks into the light modules. You then make connections to Ground, Strobe+, Position/Navs+, Landing lights+, Taxi lights+, Sync. Easy!
You can select one of eight flash patterns on the Master unit, and that message gets sent across to the Remote unit as well. There is a magnetic reed switch on the module that allows you to change the flash pattern by simply holding a magnet near the light. (Ground adjustable only!
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The Landing light power input turns on all three light modules in each wingtip. The Taxi power input lights up just the outer single light module. In addition, if the strobes are turned off, such as when you exit the runway after landing, your Taxi switch also activates the "Flood" mode. This turns the strobe LEDs back on continuously, giving you an extra pool of light around the aircraft that clearly illuminates the edges of the taxiways and any obstructions nearby. We launched this feature with The Works kit eight years ago, and customers regularly tell us that this is a highly underrated feature of our lights.
Replacing an old school xenon strobe sytem is easy. We have an optional module that sits in place of your strobe power supply and it has the same white plugs, making it plug and play to change over and reuse your existing wiring harnesses. These are usually located somewhere super convenient like back behind the rear bulkhead, so this kit means you're only doing contortions for five minutes and no more!
We've spent hundreds of hours over the last 18 months working on the design of the Mach 2 lights, and I set the challenge to make the product fit in the smaller area of the RV-10/14 wingtips first. Boy has it been a challenge! My CAD skills are akin to drawing with crayons, so I've had a couple of far more talented people than I am work with us on the CAD to create the end product you see today. We think it's been worth it!
We encourage you to compare the Flyleds Mach 2 lights to other products on the market. The ease of installation should be readily apparent, which translates to reduced $ for those of you paying for installation assistance, and in particular if you have a tail dragger aircraft we have you fullycovered illuminated in all attitudes.
https://flyleds.com/products/#!/Mach-2-wingtip-light-kit/p/825931256
We've sold a whole lot of our very popular The Works kits since they launched back in 2018. Where The Works kit is a DIY soldering project, the Flyleds Mach 2 lights are a complete module that essentially just "drops in" to Van's wingtip light bays and under the clear lens. The light modules are assembled for you, as are the circuit boards for the nav/position and strobe lights.
We supply a mounting bracket that is also used as your cutting template. Mark out and cut the hole, rivet the bracket to the wingtip, screw the lights in, enjoy a beverage. You'll spend more time cleaning up than you will doing the actual fiberglass work to install these!
At launch our first option suits the RV-10 and RV-14A, which share the same wingtips. Building a tail dragger? We haven't forgotten about you! In the next month or so we will have a variation to suit the RV-14. Like our other tail dragger specific lights, this will include a tilted taxi light on each module, giving you a whole lot of light correctly aimed for landings, and then light correctly aimed for taxiing on both sides of the aircraft when the tail is on the ground.
Separately we are working on a model to suit the current style W-715-1 wingtips found on the RV-7 and -8. This will suit both nose wheelers and tail draggers in the one unit. Coming soon!
At this point we will supply the Mach 2 lights in knocked down form, taking you about ten minutes to assemble them with a single screwdriver. Shipping them this way halves the volume, saving you $$. The housings are made for us on industrial Fused Deposition Modeling machines and come in Henry Ford black only, so knock down form makes it very easy for you to paint them as well.
Do you have an RV-6, -7 or -8 with the earlier W-715 "Batwing" wingtips? Sorry, these lights aren't for you, but The Works kit is. RV-9? Same answer. These have light bays that are smaller again and we just can't make the Mach 2 lights any smaller!
The Flyleds The Essentials and The Works kit are operated using a central controller board, in much the same way as the old xenon strobe systems has a central power supply. Instead the Mach 2 lights are fully self contained, just needing power and ground to operate. Like other LED strobe products on the market, there is a sync wire that runs between the wings and tail light that will allow the Master unit on the pilot's wing to sync the strobes on the right wing as well as the matching tail strobe.
The Mach 2 lights can even sync a Van's (Aeroleds) tail light if you've already bought one with your tail kit.
We supply short wiring harness tails with a 6 pin plug that clicks into the light modules. You then make connections to Ground, Strobe+, Position/Navs+, Landing lights+, Taxi lights+, Sync. Easy!
You can select one of eight flash patterns on the Master unit, and that message gets sent across to the Remote unit as well. There is a magnetic reed switch on the module that allows you to change the flash pattern by simply holding a magnet near the light. (Ground adjustable only!
)The Landing light power input turns on all three light modules in each wingtip. The Taxi power input lights up just the outer single light module. In addition, if the strobes are turned off, such as when you exit the runway after landing, your Taxi switch also activates the "Flood" mode. This turns the strobe LEDs back on continuously, giving you an extra pool of light around the aircraft that clearly illuminates the edges of the taxiways and any obstructions nearby. We launched this feature with The Works kit eight years ago, and customers regularly tell us that this is a highly underrated feature of our lights.
Replacing an old school xenon strobe sytem is easy. We have an optional module that sits in place of your strobe power supply and it has the same white plugs, making it plug and play to change over and reuse your existing wiring harnesses. These are usually located somewhere super convenient like back behind the rear bulkhead, so this kit means you're only doing contortions for five minutes and no more!
We've spent hundreds of hours over the last 18 months working on the design of the Mach 2 lights, and I set the challenge to make the product fit in the smaller area of the RV-10/14 wingtips first. Boy has it been a challenge! My CAD skills are akin to drawing with crayons, so I've had a couple of far more talented people than I am work with us on the CAD to create the end product you see today. We think it's been worth it!
We encourage you to compare the Flyleds Mach 2 lights to other products on the market. The ease of installation should be readily apparent, which translates to reduced $ for those of you paying for installation assistance, and in particular if you have a tail dragger aircraft we have you fully
https://flyleds.com/products/#!/Mach-2-wingtip-light-kit/p/825931256
i suspect you can appreciate how some may enjoy soldering and doing it themselves.