I bought strobes made by Aeroflash Signal in Chicago. The wing tip units contain the white rear light, the front green/red light, and a side mounted strobe. This eliminates the problems with wiring and mounting a tail light on the rudder. They have about one square inch of frontal area, so should be low drag. There are two power supplies for the strobes, and I mounted them on the floor of the fuselage behind the cockpit.
They are expensive: Wicks presently lists them on page 196 of their catalog for $432 (part number 156-0049DF). Weight including the power supplies is one pound 2.3 ounces. Current draw is 3.8 to 6.0 amps. One suggestion about wiring. I placed a length of 3/4" diameter plastic wire conduit (from any lumber yard) from the wing tip to the WAF's, then an extension through the stub wing into the fuselage. It makes pulling wires a breeze, and it also carries the tubing from the pitot tube and static port at the outside end of the left wing. Murphy's law says that you will need to change the wiring at some time in the future, and this makes it simple. I used knife connectors covered with heat shrink tubing at the WAF's, then pulled the loose wire under the seat and into the wing tip. That way, there is nothing hanging out to interfere with the aileron cables. As always, your results may vary. Jim Vance va...@claflinwildcats.com
