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We offer DIY LED kits that you can install onto any aircraft. Simply order the LED strips in the length that you need for your airframe, add any extensions or Y connectors needed, add the LED controller, and you’re all set. Once you receive everything, you can cut the LED strips to the correct length and install them using the adhesive backing, or use hot glue or other adhesives in harder areas. They can be installed on the surface of the airframe, or they can be installed inside the airframe, as long as your airframe allows the light to show through. Use our firmware configuration tool to program the controller with the correct numbers of LEDs in each strip, and you’re all set for some fun night flying!

Keep in mind that adding Y connectors will double the current draw for that leg of the LED controller. Y connectors should only be used on short sections of LEDs, NOT for long wing strips. Our firmware configuration tool calculates maximum current draw based on the number of LEDs that you program into each leg, and adjusts the maximum brightness accordingly. But when adding strips through Y connectors, the additional LEDs are not taken into consideration. When laying out your design, please connect everything on your workbench first and power it up using a watt meter to check your current draw. Make sure you are under the limits of your BEC. If necessary, use a secondary BEC to power the LED controller.

 

LED controller v2.1 (also fits Night Radian)

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LED controller v2.1 (also fits Night Radian)

$45.00

This LED controller plugs into a spare channel on your receiver and allows you to control the LEDs, choosing from several different patterns, right from your transmitter. It gives you the option of enabling navigation lights on your model for easier orientation when flying in low light or nighttime conditions. This mode turns the wingtips red and green, and also strobes the wingtips white, mimicking full-scale aircraft navigation lights.

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One of the sequences on this LED controller is an altitude sensor. It will indicate how high the model is flying above ground level (AGL) by lighting up more wing LEDs as your altitude increases. Zero feet AGL has zero LEDs lit. 400 feet AGL has all the wing LEDs lit up white. From 400 to 800 feet, the LEDs turn from white to orange from the root to the tip. It also provides a vertical speed indicator (variometer) that will cause the tail LEDs to remain white during level flight, but will change to green when climbing and red when descending, in varying intensity depending on your rate of climb/descent.

This is also a direct replacement for the stock Night Radian LED controller, giving you all these capabilities in the Night Radian.

ATTENTION: If you have the Bind ‘n Fly version of the Night Radian with the Spektrum AR636 receiver, please be aware that the extra channels on this receiver may be disabled. You may need to enable one of these extra channels in order to add any accessories to this receiver. This is not a limitation of, or is in any way caused by this LED controller. You can find more information about this on our FAQ page.