I know some of this has been hashed out here before, but I was reading an 
article in Sport Aviation last night and saw a statement I had not seen 
before.  The statement was that nav lights have to be wired independently 
from anti-collision lights.  Purpose being that if something smokes, you 
don't go completely dark to the outside world.  What I'm wondering is how 
far the separation of wiring should be.  For example, it is easy to run a 
common ground out the wing or to the tail for both systems, but it would 
seem that that approach would not comply and that separate grounds (DC 
negative) wires should be run for each system, back to the main ground bus.

The discussion here (and other lists concerned with experimentals) is that 
our systems and lighting need not comply with TSO's for equipment nor 
approved materials for installation.  I do think we all agree that best 
practices should be followed, therefore my question.  Comments-?

Oscar Zuniga
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
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