Wingtip lights

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I purchsed LED wingtip lights with strobe and white position lights. With the wingtip design, the lights would be blocked from above. Has anyone come up with an alternative placement?

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You’ll need to make a mount for the light that brings it out to where it’s not blocked. There are actually some on Thingiverse if you have a 3D printer and get lucky enough to have the same light. I’m using the Uavionix SkyBeacon and SkySensor so I had to make my own. Anyone who wants the .stl file can have it.

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I did the same - link to the files is here:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2508987

What lights do you have?

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Gauge Pods are another option but they may or may not work with your lights. I was going to use them but they didn’t fit my AeroLEDs Pulsar 660s so I went the 3D printed route.

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I have the Aveo powerburst. I just noticed that a Sones wingtip mount if available! I’ll check into that or fabricate something. Thank you!!

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John is scowling at us for putting lights on a Day VFR Sportplane, but my project came with them, so I whittled “shims” out of softwood to fix the beam pattern and painted them.

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Welcome, Txairmale!. I made my skybeacon mount to extend about 2 in past the upper surface, out of fiberglas, riveted in, filled in with bondo, smoothed and painted. been working fine since 2017. 13BRV3 is exactly correct!

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Some of us are burning up night VFR hours too!

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I have the same lights. I designed and 3D printed some stand-offs that would have worked fine (depending on the filament - I suggest PETG or nylon).

And then I decided to try making 3D printed composite molds. They turned out pretty well.

Here’s a link to the project on my GitHub where you can grab the STL files to print your own:

It’s already been mentioned in the forum before, but here’s a link to my YouTube video covering the “forged” carbon fiber lay-up process for it:

I think you could just print the cavity and lay up a couple of layers of fiberglass/carbon fiber cloth without using the core to press-fit the material. It would certainly be lighter that way.

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Thank you all very much. I’ll choose a solution from your suggestions!

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