
You've just found the best light on the market for your plane.
Please have a look at the YouTube video above. (Watch out for the bat!)
Following on from the success of our Works kit and Combo lights, the Seven Stars light is designed to fit in the leading edge light bays of your plane. They will fit into a Duckworks or Van's PAR36 (4" round) light bracket, as typically found in all RV models. If you have a rectangular halogen in there now it's only four screws to remove the bracket from the wing and you can easily enlarge the hole out at the bench with a dremel type tool. We have a cutting guide you can download here.
(Van's instructions for the RV-10 wing can be downloaded here or from Van's webpage above.)
With seven Cree LEDs the Seven Stars spotlight projects 9000 lumens of clear 5000k white light forward. Our highly efficient collimating lenses throw all of that light waaay out front and center where it's needed. We think that should be enough for you to see into tomorrow.*
*(Time travel claims not verified, but we're still confident!)
Some of our competitors list their light output in Beam Candlepower. For comparison the Seven Stars light is 588,000 candela. Yes really!
This photo was taken standing on the ground at Oshkosh with one single light held high at arms length. The line of planes extend a measured 600ft away, with the trees further away still.
A customer replaced a well respected light with one Seven Stars light:
These make the Baja Squadron Pro's look embarrassingly dim. Just the spill light from your landing light on the left wing is brighter than the (Baja's) half flood/half spot on the right wing.
I might swap lenses on the Baja to be only flood as I don't need it's spot anymore :) Guil B.
And a few months later he bought another Seven Stars light from us!
From other happy customers:
I got a compliment for your lights from a firefighting helicopter pilot at Ballarat (Australia) yesterday. He said that he could see us from 10 miles away in clear daylight. He also mentioned that they were better than he had on a helicopter that could carry 19 people. Andrew L
I’ve never been satisfied with my HID lights, so I decided to install the most powerful lights I could find. I always struggled with judging the last 10-15’ of height above the runway at night, but these lights make landings close to daytime.
I greased five consecutive night landings on my first night flight in several months. Daniel L
The lights are awesome really. Had a couple of night check rides with them now and the instructors are like "WTF! These lights are heaps better than the King Air I fly!" Makes night landings so much easier especially when things are less than ideal. No one has trouble seeing me in daytime either, these lights make flying a lot safer. Troy J
And another testimonial from none other than Vic Syracuse of Base Leg Aviation:
I think your Seven Stars are a safety upgrade for all night flyers and are quite shockingly fantastic. There is so much light it is like landing in the daytime. Depth perception is there, and the usual procedure for night landings of “flare-and-let-it-settle” was gone. All three landings were squeakers. I even taxied back to take a picture of the runway from the cockpit view. It was amazing! Upon arriving back at my home field (grass) which is usually a black hole, at one hundred-fifty feet over the approach end I could see almost half of the runway!
The new lights exceed my wildest expectations.
Notice the size of the heatsink behind our spotlights. Modern LEDs are fantastic but they still generate lots of heat which needs to be removed from the LED to ensure it's long life. Other lights on the market with smaller heatsinks are limited in the amount of light they can generate, simply because they can't manage away the heat! Keep this in mind when looking at out competitors products. If it's small and compact, there can only be a lot less light being made...
For example, one of our competitors is marketing their new light and claiming that it's "2.5x brighter than their previous model", and yet from their own brochure it only maintains its "headline" output power for the first minute or two. After 15 minutes their light output has dropped by almost half! Exactly what improvements are you buying here!?
The Seven Stars light maintains its light output continuously and indefinitely.
8 amps max current draw, and for 12 volt systems only.
If you have a 50w halogen in your wings now, you're already pulling that much current and you'd be lucky to have 5-700 lumens of (eww, yellow) light...
And of course, with our linear (not switching) power supply design, there will not be any intercom or radio noise. Guaranteed. We didn't suppress the noise, the lights are inherently noise free.
The Seven Stars light has two power inputs, giving you high beam/low beam functionality.
The Main power input will light up all seven lights at once, while the (optional) Taxi power input will light up just the one center spotlight so you can be more courteous to others when you're on the ground. Two diodes keep the power inputs separated.
Supplied un-assembled as the completed light PCB, heatsinks and collimating lens, the light requires about 20 minutes of assembly time. (No soldering required!) We've been busy with the 3D printer to make this as easy as possible. All you need is a Phillips head screwdriver. Assembly instructions are available here.
From customer Ashley M, Aust:
If you have not seen the Redcliffe Approach video I took (top of page), please watch it to understand how good these are to fly with at night. And during the day these lights are on wigwag all the time. The amount of amazing comments I receive from other pilots, controllers and just general folk at fly-ins, tells me that they are a real safety improvement for day VFR ops.
If you needed further convincing, customer Mike M recently sent us this amazing message:
Last week I was flying towards Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport (KDFW). I posted a short message and photo about the flight on Van's Air Force (VAF). Two days later I was contacted by an air traffic controller with the message below. He saw us from over 40 miles away in the middle of the day because of our flashing Seven Stars lights. 40+ miles!
...for some reason I happen to look east and saw bright wig wag lights. Our radar scope is usually looking at about a 20 mile range, but I ranged it out to 50 miles and started clicking on radar tags. There were 3 airplanes it could have been at the time so I kept them highlighted on my scope and kept an eye visually out the window which one was wig-wagging as you flew over DFW. I wrote down your callsign and remembered it because it ended in my initials MG.
No doubt about it, it was well over 40 miles that I saw you from the tower cab!
...and it turns out that the tower controller is a Flyleds customer as well! He also bought two Seven Stars and our The Essentials kit. A wise choice!
Do you want the best lights on the planet for your tail dragger aircraft? Please see our Tail Dragger Max light for the same night landing experience.
GOT WIGWAG? Please see our two Wigwag products below. Having your lights turned on and flashing for every flight you make is the key to being seen in today's busy skies.