LED Tower - Lights for Anycubic Delta Kossel Linear Plus by archimedesmp

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

These are mini LED towers for my Anycubic Linear Plus (Model late 2017/early 2018).
They fit onto the stepper mounts and can hold three 3mm LEDs each.
There are better lights on thingiverse, but I only had these simple LEDs in my parts bin... So if you're in the same boat: Enjoy.
The holes have a diameter of 4mm defined in the CAD, so you can push them further in (might need some glue!). For my printer they are a bit tight with 3mm LEDs, but I didn't set it up for better precision, yet.
I added a second variant with an additional hole in the bottom center to route the power cable. Those cables I had don't fit, but maybe someone else might find this variant handy.
Also added a cover for gluing to the back. This one should leave about 12mm of space for cable routing. Additionally the cover has a center space (5.5mm, which should leave about 0.5mm room) and 1.5mm poles to properly push in the LEDs.
I will not print the power-hole variant, since the only spare wires I had are to thick to route that way at all.
The tower height is intended for the heated bed holders I use, which are slightly higher than those coming as default (btw, I can really recommend these!):https://www.thingiverse.com/make:441898
The heat bed is ~18.5mm above the 20x20 rails, the tower adds another 15mm on top of that.
I wanted to angle the LEDs at 80deg instead of 90deg, but I couldn't figure out how to do that in Autodesk. That's not too bad, since the tower can easily angled a little bit due to the rounded corners inside the bottom clip.
WARNING Be careful to fix your cables down somehow, or even better, isolate them with shrinking tube. YOU MIGHT GET SHORTS IF THEY WIGGLE TOO MUCH, and most printers vibrate a lot!
For obvious reasons they should also not block your timing belts ;)