14 June 2012

Nav Light Upgrade

With the dome lights upgraded recently, I was thinking about what to do with the map / nav lights. The white light was going to be too bright for a map light, as the time your eyes take to adjust would be to annoying for night driving / navigation.


Subsequently I thought about military applications; which typically employ a red or green light to reduce glare and loss of natural night vision. With that in mind, I went searching the web for some LED light strips in either red or green. Green seemed to be pretty difficult to find, so I ended up going for red in a small form strip of 2 x 3 LEDs.

2 x 3 Red LED Strip
Both nav lights on.
Cabin with both lights on