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Dick Cepek lights have been used on other "off road" vehicles and their customers rave about their robustness and intensity. I recently became interested in cutting through the morning fog off of Santa Rosa, CA, KSTS and began a lighting project for my LNC2 360. I went to ebay and found a set of the DC 3000 E halogen lights from autoaccessories4you. They list them as $19.99 with about $8.00 for shipping from Laguna CA. The housing is only 2 1/2 inches in diameter. The bulb is retained between a metal substructure and a high temperature custom molded elastomer. The ceramic electrical connector is large and robust. The wiring connections are plated to eliminate corrosion. The exterior finish is ceramic coated aluminum. The kit comes with everythng to hook up the lights as well - relay, switch, wiring, and connectors. They appear to be very elegantly (read that not overdone, over designed, under designed, or cheap) engineered.
You can purchase them from a retail outlet as well. To see the specs go to:
http://www.extremesuspensions.com/lighting/lighting_index.htm
I am going to replace the 55W bulb with the 75W, 11,000 cp bulbs from bulb.com. Any MR16 format bulb will fit. These will be fine for taxi, but probably not for landing. I have the old reliable, but Edisonian vintage life (25hrs harkens back at least a century) 4509 in in the nose. As we all know it will catch the center line in a dive, or inverted, but is useless on the ground.
Charles
Commuting to work at 200mph and 25mpg strapped to a piece of fiberglass and enjoying every minute of it.
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