CR-10 V2 Light Bar for 12.5mm LED strips for Z-Axis support rods and Cover

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This is a Remix of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4501939 for 12.5 mm LED strips. The bars work with the "Rod Clip" of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4501939. I made the bar shorter and removed the end cap. One bar is 270 mm, so two of them fit one of the z axis support rods. The additional bar for the top extrusion (the Light_Bar_12.5 mm_for_Extrusion.* files) can be mounted to the CR-10 V2's top extrusion using 3x M5x10 mm screws with M5x10x6 mm T nuts. This way, one 1.5 metres long LED strip like the Paulmann MaxLED 500 (bright) or MaxLED 1000 (VERY bright) fits pretty well around the whole construction. Start on one side on the front bottom of a Z axis support rod, lay out the LED stripe upwards through two light bars, do a turn to the extrusion mounted profile, lay out the stripe through it, do another turn and continue through the light bars back down to the bottom of the second Z rod support. So you have a U-shaped lighting. Usually one lightbar per side will be enough, but for some circumstances it's necessary to also have light from the top, and this way you get your whole build plate lighted up properly. Additionally I created a cover for the lightbars to be printed in transparent filament. It's probably a good idea to do this in PETG or ABS, as some of the LED strips become pretty hot when on for hours, and the cover is directly in front of them. I also created small caps which can be clipped on top of the LED stripe, if you don't use a transparent cover. These are just some kind of safety measure, if you wanna add something to prevent the LED stripe from falling down during a print job if it's self adhesive stops sticking to the bar. Print a couple of them, the are just 5mm short, so they should be small enough to be placed over the gaps of two LED cells without masking them. As they are really small, you maybe need a raft or some other adhesive supporting measures like glue, hairspray or 3D Lac. **The part list to do a complete LED stripe mount like explained above (from the bottom of one Z support rod, up to the top extrusion, over to the other side, back down the other Z support rod):** - **4x** Light_Bar_12.5mm.stl - **1x** Light_Bar_12.5mm_for_Extrusion.stl - **8x** "Rod Clip" from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4501939 **Optionally add transparent covers to diffuse the LED rays which optimizes the overall light:** - **4x** Light_Bar_12.5mm_Cover.stl - **1x** Light_Bar_12.5mm_Cover_for_Extrusion.stl **Optionally if you don't use covers:** - **8x** Light_Bar_12.5mm_Cap.stl if you wanna make sure, that your LED strips don't fall on your print if the self adhesive stops sticking to the bar. Two by bar should be enough, add more if you wanna be really sure to stop the LED strip from falling down. I included a ZIP file containing a FreeCAD FCStd file and a step file for every model. So feel free to modify to your own needs. I'd be glad if you ping me if you find some optimizations or alternations.

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