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Landings light question....

Sun Aug 11, 2019 12:35 pm

Anyone have or know of a source for data on Grimes landings lights? The AT calls out a particular Grimes unit, something like a D-4000, but I can't seem to find any info on it, or what alternates there may be. I tried sending an email to tech support at Grimes last year and never heard anything back from them.

Re: Landings light question....

Mon Aug 12, 2019 1:01 pm

Grimes is owned by Honeywell now if that matters.

What diameter and what does it fit?

Are you talking the lamp itself or the lamp assembly?

Re: Landings light question....

Mon Aug 12, 2019 2:05 pm

B: Entire assembly, mount and drive combined, for the AT-21. For the L-5, it's an AN3095-x, and calls out another number as part of that in the book. For the Fairchild, it gives me a Grimes number and that's all...something like a Grimes G-xxxx. I did find a Brit book on the AN3095, but it's not a ton of help.

Re: Landings light question....

Mon Aug 12, 2019 2:37 pm

Use MIL-L-81174/4A

Does any of this help?
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Re: Landings light question....

Mon Aug 12, 2019 4:47 pm

bdk, I had not seen those AN3095 drawings before. Pretty cool.

From some pics I have seen:

AN3095-1 is a Grimes G-3100 12V
AN3095-3 is a Grimes G-3001 28V
AN3095-7 is a Grimes D-3040E 28V
AN3095-9 is a Grimes G-3001A 28V

That's all I can offer.

Re: Landings light question....

Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:49 am

I need to go dig in the books a little bit to see, but it’s probably enough info to back into what I need. The electrical table only gives a Grimes number for the light assembly and no AN or AAC spec number. Finding out specifications from some of these numbers, such as AAC 42-23109 can be a challenge when all you have is the spec number, a partial description and if you’re lucky, a vendor name.

Will dig on this, but will be a few days before I can do so. Got to some stuff to get two of the cars inspected and new tags this week, and I don’t do 100F+ in the direct sun for long anymore.
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