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Finish Kit Update September 2011 Updates September 24, 2011 Replaced Resistor for LED NAV Lights ..... - 4.0 hrs I noticed the other day during a taxi test that I had white noise on the radio. I did some further testing to find that it was the LED NAV lights causing the issue. I gave Jeff a buzz to find out that he said Cletus I told you not to use those pucks and suggested to change out the pucks that came with the lights to a 8 ohm 20 watt resistor from Radio Shack. So today I removed the wingtips and started that process. I had to make up some little brackets to hold them in place and I clipped off the wires from the old pucks since Jeff did such a nice job on those little plug in connectors. I didn;t want to loose that ability to easily unplug them when I need to remove the wingtips. I used terminators to connect the wires to the resistor to power and grounded the ground side to one of the pull rivets I used for the brackets just like I did before. Once I completed the left side I plugged it back in and powered up for a test. Works like a champ. I then used some silicone in the bracket to keep it from rattleing around. Next I removed the right side wingtip. Then I worked on a lead weight I made by melting down some fishing weights. I needed to mount this in the elevator to balance it. I am going to drill a hole in it and install a rivnut to allow it to be screwed in place in case I ever need to change it after paint. This website was built to document my work in compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by no means to be considered as instructions on how to build any aircraft.