KVM920 Aircraft Lighting Systems Lab Trainer

The KVM920 Aircraft Lighting Systems Lab Trainer is the mobile version of our popular KV920 benchtop model. This trainer is used to introduce students to electrical circuits through an aviation theme – the external lights of an aircraft. This trainer has a wide range of capabilities beginning with understanding simple series and parallel electrical circuits, progressing to using a digital multimeter to test circuits, all the way up to complex troubleshooting.

The trainer layout is designed like an actual aircraft instrument panel with a rocker master switch and individual toggle switches to control the operation of the various light circuits. The aircraft lighting circuits include taxi lights in the nose cowl, landing lights in the leading edge of the wing, navigational position lights in the wingtips, and a flashing anti-collision light at the top of the tail.

This mobile version of the trainer features a rugged case for ease of transport or storage, and if offered with or without fault capability. The KVM920 is the basic mobile version without fault capability, while the KVM920F includes a separate fault box and the wire harness to connect the main trainer box to the fault panel box. The KVM920F trainer with fault capability features an 11-switch fault panel that is used to teach the principles of troubleshooting by inducing opens or shorts in the lighting circuits of the trainer. The fault panel housed in the separate case allows instructors to set faults out of the student’s view.

All CES Trainers feature a self-contained design, eliminating the need for external components or accompanying computer software to run the trainer. Circuit connections are made using banana-style patch cables between test jacks on the face of the trainer for each electronic component. After building a circuit, the patch cables can be easily and quickly removed in preparation for the next experiment.