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Lights
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| Before Mid Summer weekend at 22nd - 24th it was time to
prepare the craft for possible late night drive. |
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| Some of the lights had already been installed last fall,
but some of them were still in the plastic bag waiting the installation.
None of the lights were hooked to electrical system. |
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| Most of the wires were already there just to connect them
to switches so that wasn't too much of the problem. |
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| In not time red
and green sidelights were working and it was time to put in yellow flasher
and all around white. |
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| I had bought at least two different flasher relays for
this and found out what i thought to be the other. We tested it for awhile
and couldn't figure out how to connect it to get it working. I had bought
this unit from large autoparts store based on their catalog. Luckily i
happened to have their catalog with me in the hovercraft as at some point
we started to suspect that this is not a flasher relay at all. And indeed
based on part number it was voltage regulator. No harm done here except
wasted some time on this. I looked through all those plastic bags and found
one with electric parts in it and there was heavy duty flasher relay too.
We didn't have any problems hooking this one and soon were ready to install
the actual lights. |
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| My dad left the hoverport to weld a support for the lights
and i stayed there for some lunch and to prepare wires for installing the
lights on thrust prop stand. |
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| We didn't find a good way to route wires and to install
lights so we just kinda threw them in there to meet the regulations. This
is merely because if there is a possibility to be stopped by coast guard
or the police it would likely happen just this weekend as 80% of finnish
people will be on water or at least very close to water. |
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| All around white light started to work right away, but
single 5W bulb wasn't enough load for the flasher relay to work. Anyway
everything was in working status now so we were done. |
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| Later on i took a fog light out of one of my project BMW's
and installed it under the back seat of Explorer to work as additional
load for yellow flasher. Surely flashing rate is not what it should be,
but at least there is a flash. |