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I had a real quick time on the project today. I got home from work and then deburred the right leading edge ribs while my pizza was cooking in the oven. That's about all the work I did because I had to go back in and finish a presentation I'm giving on my thesis tomorrow. Normally I would have just lumped this into the next work session's log but I also spent some money tonight, so that's worth writing down. I've been scratching my head over what to do for landing lights. The Duckworks leading edge landing light kit seems to be pretty popular and I have been leaning towards it for a while. My one issue though was that it cost $500 for the installation kit plus the HID lights plus the ballasts for the lights. It gets cheaper if you go with a 50W or 100W halogen bulb but those get really hot, have a short life, and don't put out nearly as much light as HIDs do. Well, I really want the HID lights so I looked on eBay and found two digital ballasts and two 6000K H3 bulbs for $35 dollars shipped! Needless to say, I jumped on those and then pieced together the Duckworks kit. I got from them two round installation kits with no lights (one for each wing) and also the reflector that holds the bulb. All total I spent $232 on my 35W HID landing light setup which should have comparable lighting performance to 100W halogens! Ahh, the luxuries of building an "experimental" plane. Here's a shot from the Duckworks site of a 35W HID landing light (on the left) and a 55W halogen landing light (on the right) in identical reflectors:  Here's another shot showing 35W HID vs 55W halogen. This also shows what the leading edge cutout looks like. This picture is from Brian Chesteen. For those with concerns over my eBay purchase, he also got his there for $35. 
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