LED "tealight" holders for mounting to Ender 3

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I wanted some LED lights for my Ender 3 so that I could monitor prints in a dark room via OctoPrint as well as for lighting photos for OctoLapse. I had a bunch of cheap LED "tealights" lying around left over from a Halloween costume for my son. I designed a really simple housing for the lights and a lid to keep them in place. In order to mount them on the Ender 3, I used a rail for a "clip" on the Ender 3 Rail Camera Mount by "Dauler." The LEDs I have are color changing and I've had some success with creating "mood lighting" for my OctoLapses and can get some weird strobing effects if I use the color changing settings. Experiment and have fun. I've designed a single rail clip version that can hang from the top of the Ender 3 rail and a double clip version that can be used in any of the wider extruded rails. They are actually interchangeable but will be slightly off center if you use the single rail holder in a double rail or double rail holder in a single rail. I'm not sure if these cheap LED lights come in a standard size. Mine are 36.7 mm in diameter by 22.2 mm tall. I got a 10 pack of color change LED submersible tealights for $18 [here](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WHM1CFH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). There are lots of options out there that use the same basic remote but you would potentially need to resize this if you use something else. In my setup, the lights fit in easily but not too snug and the lid easily keeps them in place. In order to print the LED holders (single or double rail) you will need to use supports. I printed this in Cura using "support interface" and had no trouble removing the supports with a single pull. It is very important that you have "support interface" or whatever equivalent your slicer uses enabled or you're going to have a lot more trouble. I set my supports to 80 degrees which will produce supports for the base of the LED holder but not the rail clips. NOTE: KEEP TRACK OF HOW HIGH YOU ARE PLANNING ON PRINTING ON THE Z-AXIS TO KEEP THE BOWDEN TUBE FROM HITTING THE LIGHTS

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