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| L1011 Flight Engineer's Station Flood Light |
Today we changed the first flood light fixture from fluorescent lighting to LED lighting. The flood light is above the Flight Engineer's station and is about 24" wide. The image above shows the Flight Engineer's station illuminated after the retrofit.
For the retrofit I selected COOL WHITE LEDs because they are pretty close to the light that would have come from the fluorescent light bulbs. The LEDs below are standard SMD ultra bright LEDs mounted on an adhesive strip.
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| Cool White LED Strip - 12VDC |
The LED's can be cut just about every 2 inches (or every 3 LEDs). This makes them very flexibly for installations in the already existing flood light fixtures of the L-1011 simulator. Of course, the main advantage of using the LEDs are their durability and extremely low thermal output.
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| Cool White SMD LED Strip - 12VDC |
The station flood light is controlled by a dimmer on the lower left hand side of the console. The image below shows the flood light at full intensity.
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| L-1011 Flight Engineer's Station - Flood Light Installation |
The flood light fixture on top of the station has a metal strip that prevents light from spilling significantly further than the station itself.
This contains the flood light and does not spill over to the pilot's stations or the main instrument panel.
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| L-1011 Flight Engineer's Station Upper Section - Flood Light |
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| L-1011 Flight Engineer's Station Lower Section - Flood Flight |
The next flood lights to install will be above the Pilot's and First Officer's main instrument panels. The engine cluster flood light is combined with the Pilot's flood light and is controlled by the same dimmer.
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