We have an affordable lighting sys. At E98. The standards are 1″ PVC , the body made from 4″ PVC caps cut to allow the globes to stick thru. The inside standard sockets & 11W bulbs.
Maintenance is easy, device is frangible, globes usually purchased from CBI supply at a discount.
Each light is under $25.00, and spaced at 200′ .
The old controller has been here a while, you can go with PCL like we have, or just dusk-dawn.
Get in touch if you need more information or pictures. You can find my phone number published for E98.
Kurt.

I know someone who has some rwy lights he bought a while ago but opted not to install on hist grass runway. I sent him the link for here.

Runway Lighting
Several years ago I purchased over eighty Commercial Runway Lights.
I have about forty lights left and for sale. They work great and I installed them myself. I used CFL and they put out 60 watts of light using 11 watts of current each.
If interested call 843 602 8220 Ron Heidebrink

Chuck,

Very first consideration is: Do you need Federal money and Federal control. In my case the answer is no.

I went the Bright Portal Route but these lights proved to be somewhat less than reliable even though they are designed to be glued to the pavement and run over. I have not asked for a refund, about a third of the lights failed in the first two years and they are not repairable.

My back yard strip (NH61) is one way with 1720 ft. 55 ft wide tapering to 34′ wide.

My solution for the white runway lights, Home Depot (or Lowe’s) cast aluminum, solar powered deck lights at two for 30 bucks. Mount them on inverted Home Depot Homer buckets. Prepare the buckets by removing the bail, drilling four quarter inch holes in the bottom (now top)and drill out each of the little square “cups” around the edge of the bucket. Now find some scrap 1/4″ steel strapping to cut into small weights for those cups to make the buckets heavier. Believe me when I say the buckets will blow away if unweighted.

Unfortunately, the deck lights come only in white, while Bright portal lights come in every aviation color. However, the Deck lights are half the cost of the BP lights, and should last forever as they have replaceable batteries and seem to be much more reliable.

As for VASI, I’m working on that. REELS, Walmart garden illumination lights that are their most expensive LED Solar lights at 2 for 50 bucks. You will have to work out the circuitry to make them flash at 2 cps.

As for MALSARs (rabbit), I have built a system with these lights that I am now testing with the entire array on the house side of the runway facing my bedroom. They have been running without interruption for a year now and are enough to light up the bedroom ceiling quite well. That project is a bit more complicated, but when I get my wetlands permit for a conservation walkway to nowhere, I’ll be happy to share the how to.

Good Luck!

Mike

Hi, Chuck. As you can guess by the responses to your inquiry airport lighting can run the gamete in expense and complexity. I live on Naper Aero (LL10) west of Chicago. We are investigating replacement options for our existing system which is PCL runway lighting on our main runway and a two-light VASI. An engineered system looks like it will cost us in excess of $100K. Most likely, we will find a lower cost option. If you are a private strip, there is probably no need to get the “real deal” engineered system. Our current set up was a “home made” system of buried cable and standard runway light fixtures. It has served us well for the last 35 years so we will most likely undertake a like-minded replacement with some upgrades and improvements. For instance, we may use LED bulbs for the long service life and low power usage. We may also convert the old VASI boxes to LED illumination for the same reasons as well as being able to dispense with old transformer components that will one day, be unavailable. New VASI or PAPIs are costly. Those alone, could double your total lighting cost. Depending on what your users are looking for, a simple VASI panel system might be a good alternative (which could be illuminated for night use) at a low cost. Being low cost, a panel system could be replaced with less financial consequence should you all decide you really need a manufactured set up. If your residents are up for it, some or all of the work could be accomplished by volunteers or at a discount should some of your residents have ready access to resources you may need. I’m thinking of someone who owns/operates a business in construction who may have access to something like a trencher. I know this was all very general, but this is one of those things that has lots of moving parts and there are many ways to skin that cat (sorry cat lovers). If you’d like to talk let me know. Perhaps we could keep each other posted on our respective project’s progress. Lew

Hi all,

Please check us out http://www.avlite.com or call us at 603 737 1310. We have a number of affordable solutions for airstrip solar lighting and very recently had a successful installation on a remote island in Maine. The 3000′ grass strip installation was finished in less than 3 hours.

I have two sets of 1 Master & 1 Slave 4 total new REIL: L-849A/C/E Xenon Runway End Identification Light Made by Siemens . Like I said these are new so I will take reasonable offer for all four, my contact phone number is 360-436-0397. These are located in Washington State and I can deliver within a 800 mile area of Seattle for an additional cost based on mileage. Contact Patrick Morgan at the above number.

I have a complete VASI system for sale. I am located in Missouri. They system was removed from an airport in missouri when they upgraded.