Strobe light restoration

[nikitis]

So my strobe light was broken upon purchase. I’d rather upgrade it so it’s LED. But if I do that, do I still need to use that PSU or transformer or whatever that monstrosity is on an LED version or can I just bypass it since an led version won’t need so much juice?

[PorchDog]

I want to think that the original strobe used a Xenon bulb with a high voltage power supply that had a timer to trigger the bulb to fire.

With an LED you will not need any of that.

Here is a high quality LED strobe that plugs into a standard lamp socket--

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catal...be11-13522.php

[nikitis]

Oh nice. I don't know what type of socket my existing xenon bulb uses yet. I'll have to get up there and look but even if it doesn't match the socket the socket type is cheap enough to obtain, and I can manage the wiring it up. Would just take a positive wire then ground to body it looks like. Also slightly but not by much cheaper than a xenon replacement bulb and with out the step up transformer.

Either way, something I can work with. Thanks for the info.

[cadillackid]

just get a new one.. the xenon are still the best abd brightest.. whenever people are scrapping vintage busses we take the REAL XENON strobes off and replace the wimpy LED strobes on a lot of the bewer busses.. some of the newest LED strobes are finnaly catching up and are good but those are the most expensive ones..

[s2mikon]

Be careful, most of those operate at over 330 volts. It will get your attention.